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Seldom does a committee chairman have on one committee such
cooperative, talented and willing workers as were the members of this
year's University of Maryland Nurses Alumnae Bulletin Committee. Despite
the pressing responsibilities of home and professional obligations, each
member of the committee gave generously of her time to attend meetings,
interview those who contributed the news, and organize for you the
Alumnae Bulletin for 1954. The committee chairman would like to toss
a personal verbal bouquet to each member, but having worked with each
one long enough to know her readiness for work without desire for recog-
nition, I shall simply say, "Thank you."
Elizabeth R. Singleton, Chairman
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Officers of the Alumnae Association page
1954 1
1955 2
Greetings
President, Alumnae Association 3
President, American Nurses Association 4
New Personnel
Dr. Wilson Homer Elkins 5
Dr. William Spencer Stone 7
Miss Aurelia C. Willers 8
Dr. Charles van Buiskirk 9
Mr. Albert Wnuk 10
Annual Banquet Report 11
Golden Anniversary of Sara Yarger, Class of 1904 12
Reunion Class News
1904 13
1929 13
1934 14
1939 14
1944 15
1949, June 15
1949, October 16
Program Changes in Nursing at the University of Maryland 17
The Program in Practical Nursing 19
Feature Articles
Professional Counseling and Placement Service 20
The Development of Nursing Education in Maryland (1634-1940') 22
The Effectiveness of Students' Teaching in Pre-Natal Clinic 32
University Hospital Fluid Team 37
A Cardio-Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory 38
Highlights from the 1954 A.N. A. Convention 40
The Girl with the Lamp 44
Report of the Needlework Guild 45
History of the Nurses' Alumnae Pin 45
Janet Hale Memorial Scholarship 45
Library Report 46
Volunteer Public Health Nursing Program 46
The Alumnae Museum 47
Private Duty Policy Changes 48
School and Hospital Plates 48
Psychiatric Institute 49
Personal News Items 50
Marriages 62
Births 64
Necrology 68
Uniform Regulations 69
Cap Service Information 70
Directory Regulations 71
Annual Report of the Treasurer 73
Honorary Members 76
Graduates of 1954 77
Advertisements 79
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OUTGOING OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
WHO SERVED IN 1954
Martha Curtiss, '48 President
Buckingham Apts., 3706 N. Charles St.-18. HOpkins 7-1784
Milbrey Neikirk, '29 First Vice-President
Eugenia Crow Kiser, '47 Second Vice-President
Carol Hosfeld, '50 Recording Secretary
Carolyn Myers, '53 Corresponding Secretary
Box 2, University Hospital-1
Blanche M. Horine, '21 Treasurer
3939 Cloverhill Rd.-18
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Flora M. Streett, '38 Shirley L. Milke, '45
Mary B. Besett, '46 Maria Sagardia, '43
DIRECTORY COMMITTEE
Miss Eva Popp, '46, Chairman
Gertrude D. Etzler, '15 Mary J. Wellante, '49
Thelma Ey, '47 Wilhelmina McCann, '23
Edna N. Gareis, '40 Esther Uber, '34
Ellen C. Lloyd, '17
Mrs. Crawford Heath, Registrar
2842 N. Calvert St.-18 BElmont 5-8491
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Thelma Kleckner, '47, Chairman
Ethel M. Troy, '17 Helen Maxwell, '52
Annette M. Wills, '48
BULLETIN COMMITTEE
Elizabeth R. Singleton, '47, Chairman (1955)
Mabel W. Simmont, '47 Joyce Johnson, '52 (1955)
Co-Chairman (1955) Thelma Kleckner, '47 (1955)
Phyllis M. Johnson, '49 (1956) Freda Michelitch, '47 (1954)
Mary A. Brislin, '51 (1956) Kathryn P. Donnelly, '48 (1954)
Dorothy B. Arthur, '49 (1956) Jennie B. Tegler, '48 (1954)
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Virginia C. Conley, '40, Chairman
Bessie M. Arnurius, '20 Wilda Snyder, '34
Kathryn Williams, '45 Doris Stevens, '51
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION ON THE
U. OF M. ALUMNI COUNCIL
Virginia Stack, '33
Flora M. Streett, '38 Lolah M. Mihm, '39
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
Barbara Ardis, '45, Chairman
Elizabeth R. Singleton, '47 Frances T. Jannarone, '36
Helen W. King, '44 Mabel W. Simmont, '47
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OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
1955
Mary France Dennis, '47 President
51 Murdock Road, Baltimore 12, Md.
Martha Curtiss, '48 First Vice-President
Doris Stevens, '51 Second Vice-President
Carol Hosfeld, '50 Recording Secretary
Carolyn Myers, '53 Corresponding Secretary
Box 2, University Hospital-1
Blanche Martin Horine, '21, 3939 Cloverhill Rd.-18 Treasurer
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Mary M. Riffle, '28 Shirley L. Milke, '45
Dorothy Herbert, '17 Maria Sagardia, '43
DIRECTORY COMMITTEE
Margaret Warfield Ellis, '50, Chairman
Gertrude D. Etzler, '15 Ellen C. Lloyd, '17
Elizabeth Ray, '51 Joan Gleason, '50
Edna N. Gareis, '40 Jean Groton, '50
Dorothy Kenoy, '49
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Annette M. Wills, '48, Chairman
Betty Shubkagel, '54 Helen Maxwell, '52
Emily Fitzgerald Pusey, '54
BULLETIN COMMITTEE
Miriam Croft, '52, Chairman (1957)
Mabel Simmont, '47 Joyce Johnson, '52 (1955)
Co-Chairman (1955) Thelma Kleckner, '47 (1955)
Phyllis M. Johnson, '49 (1956) Delores Tucker, '53 (1957)
Mary A. Brislin, '51 (1956) Norma Yeager, '48 (1957)
Jayne Johnson, '47 (1957) Helen Flannigan, '49 (1957)
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Virginia Conley, '40, Chairman
Bessie M. Arnurius, '20 Ethel Troy, '17
Kathryn Williams, '45 Helen Wheatley, '52
REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION ON THE
U. OF M. ALUMNI COUNCIL
Flora M. Streett, '38 Mary France Dennis, '47
Virginia Stack, '33
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE
Helen W. King, '44, Chairman
Verna Zang, '52 Frances T. Jannarone, '36
Nancy Silvers, '52 Jeanne Patten, '53
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NURSES'
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
Another year has passed and the Alumnae Association has continued
its efforts to carry out its commitments and to assume new obligations.
I want to express my sincere appreciation to all those members who
so generously gave of their time and interest during this past year. There
is a great deal of satisfaction to be gained from participation in Alumnae
activities, and I truly hope that future years will bring about increased mem-
bership and more active participation with the group.
Our monthly programs during the past year were very interesting, and,
I believe, were responsible for our fine meeting attendance.
A record attendance was noted at the annual banquet and dance in
June for the graduating class, and I hope this will continue to increase in
coming years. The committee deserves much credit for making the occasion
such an ejoyable one.
We should be very proud of the results of the Needlework Guild drive
which reported a total of 355 garments contributed by the Alumnae this
year. Our quota is 244 garments in cooperation with the Women's Board,
so let us continue to do this well in future drives.
As most of you know, in December the Alumnae sponsored a play given
by the Vagabond Players, a local theatre group. The proceeds from this
new venture were added to our Scholarship Fund. Our profit was derived
primarily from those who so generously patronized this project and I want
to express our sincere thanks to them. The committee worked long and
hard to make this affair a success and the committee members and all
those who assisted them should be commended for their efforts.
In conclusion I would like to say that serving as president of this
Association has been a fine experience and an enjoyable one as well as
a high honor to me. I extend best wishes to my successor and I sincerely
hope that she will have the support and encouragement of all of our
membership.
Martha Curtiss, President, 1954
University of Maryland
Nurses' Alumnae Association
BULLETIN OF THE NURSES ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
IT IS WITH SINCERE PLEASURE THAT I EXTEND
GREETINGS TO YOU, THE ALUMNAE OF THE SCHOOL OF
NURSING, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
YOU ARE TO BE CONGRATULATED AS A GROUP OF
NURSES WHO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF OUR
PROFESSION AND FOR THE INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE
YOU GIVE TO GRADUATES AS THEY BEGIN THEIR CAREERS
IN NURSING.
WE ARE PARTICULARLY HAPPY IN THE RELATION-
SHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN YOUR ASSOCIATION AND
THE AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION. YOU HAVE
ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED MEMBERSHIP IN THIS PROFES-
SIONAL ASSOCIATION BY EXPLAINING ITS PROGRAMS
AND POLICIES TO NEW GRADUATES AND STUDENTS.
MANY OF YOUR MEMBERS HAVE HELPED GUIDE AND
DIRECT THE AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION IN ITS
EFFORTS TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF NURSING
CARE AND THE WELFARE OF NURSES TO THE END THAT
ALL PEOPLE MAY HAVE BETTER NURSING CARE.
MAY WE CONTINUE THIS CLOSE -AND REWARDING
ASSOCIATION FOR IT IS UPON NURSES SUCH AS YOU
THAT THE FUTURE OF OUR PROFESSION DEPENDS.
Agnes Ohlson, R.N., President
American Nurses' Association for
University of Maryland
Nurses' Alumnae Association
Wilson Homer Elkins, BA., MA., Litt.B., D.Piiil
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DR. WILSON ELKINS
By Hortense B. Tegler
Dr. Wilson Elkins, 46, son of Mae and Will Elkins, was born in Medina,
Texas, where his father had a small ranch.
When he was 3 years old, the Elkinses switched to truck farming, and the
family moved to Edgewood, now part of San Antonio.
He attended Brackenridge High School where he was an honor student
and star athlete. He enrolled at Schreiner Institute after graduation but
returned home in a few weeks with a broken leg suffered in football prac-
tice. The next fall he went to the University of Texas in Austin on a
scholarship and again broke the same leg in football practice. He returned
to Schreiner for that year.
Again in 1928 he enrolled at the University of Texas, and during his four
years there won eight varsity letters in football, baseball, and track. In his
senior year, he was tapped for Phi Beta Kappa and headed the Student
Government Association.
He accumulated so many credits at Schreiner that he could have earned
his degree in three years, but he wanted to play football another year, so he
stretched his credits over four years and filled in the gaps with graduate
courses. Consequently, he received both an A.B. in American history and
an M.A. in government in 1932.
He taught history and coached in a high school in Cisco, Texas as his
first job. Then he decided to go back to academic life and applied for and
received a Rhodes scholarship.
During his three years at Oxford he took advantage of the generous
vacation periods and visited virtually every country in Europe, but spent
more time in Spain because it was the cheapest place to stay.
He had been a broadjumper and dash man at Texas and so went out
for track. But the captain needed only a pole vaulter. So, even though
Elkins could jump farther and run the 220 faster, he became a pole vaulter
and won his "blue," an enormous swatch of wool muffler, for taking first
place at a Cambridge meet, then he had to pay for it.
He received his Litt.B. and Ph.D. degrees in 1936 and sailed for home.
His thesis had been written on British-American commercial relations and
he planned a career in foreign commerce. Because of the depression, good
government jobs were hard to find.
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The University of Texas invited him to join the faculty and he accepted.
Six months later he was introduced to Dorothy Blackburn who, in June,
1937, became Mrs. Elkins.
In 1938 Dr. Elkins assumed the presidency of San Angelo Junior College.
It was a formidable task building something out of nothing, but by the
time he left in 1948, enrollment had jumped from 150 to 1,000.
Then he moved into the presidency of the Texas School of Mines and
Metallurgy at El Paso. Though founded in 1913 as a part of the state
university, it had changed into a co-educational institution with a liberal
arts program as big as its technical one.
Dr. Elkins helped rename it Texas Western, and raised its standards
and also introduced successful extension and evening programs.
Last spring he was told by a friend that he was under consideration for
presidency of the University of Maryland. Soon a letter arrived from Judge
William P. Cole, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Regents, and two weeks
later Dr. Elkins came to College Park for an interview. He returned in
May to meet the full administrative board, and this time his appointment
became official.
Dr. Elkins has made the transition from a small school of 3,000 to the
University of Maryland with incredible composure.
Dr. Elikns is particularly interested in the nurses and the School of
Nursing. He served for three years in Texas on the State Committee for
Improvement of Nursing Service and also served on another committee of
Curriculum Development in Nursing.
It is his desire to further develop the collegiate program in nursing. He
was astounded at the number enrolled this fall in the program. Also,
he wishes to further develop the one year program of practical nursing,
the latter one being dependent upon future state appropriations. These
"bedside" nurses would give more time for supervisory and administrative
duties of the college-educated nurse.
Above all, it is his desire to raise the scholastic standards of the entire
University and to be able to visit the numerous world-wide campuses of the
University of Maryland.
We extend to Dr. Elkins our very best wishes for a pleasant tenure
of office as president of the University of Maryland.
William Spencer Stone, BS., MS., M.D., D.Sc.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
WILLIAM SPENCER STONE
We would like to welcome William Spencer Stone as the Director of
Medical Education and Research of the University of Maryland. Dr. Stone
was born in Ogden, Utah. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree
in 1924 and his Master of Science Degree in 1925 from the University
of Idaho. He was graduated in Medicine from the University of Louis-
ville, Louisville, Kentucky, in 1929, and he received his Doctor of Science
Degree from the same university in 1946.
Dr. Stone entered the Army Medical Service in 1929 and held positions
in education and research fields in various Army installations including
Walter Reed General Hospital, Gorgas Hospital, the Surgeon General's
office, and the Army Medical Service Graduate School. He has been the
Army representative to the National Research Council. He has also been
a member of the District of Columbia and New York Academy of
Medicine.
Dr. Stone has worked primarily in fields of physiological and microbio-
logical research and medical education. His last position before coming to
the University was in command of the Graduate School, Army Medical
Service, located at the Walter Reed Hospital.
Because of his keen interest in nursing education and nursing service,
Dr. Stone is an active supporter of the trends in nursing which seek to
improve programs in nursing education which will better prepare nursing
personnel at all levels to meet the ever growing need for health services in
communities across the nation.
In a recent conference concerning the inauguration of the University
of Maryland's four-year program which leads to the degree of bachelor
of science in nursing, Dr. Stone remarked, "We are living in a new era
of medicine and old plans are bound to be replaced by new ones.
"The World Health Organization demands nurses with a college back-
ground. The United States Army pays registered nurses from diploma
schools $4,000 a year to attend college so that they can better meet the
needs of the Army.
"The professional nurses' work in the late war in Korea has recently
demonstrated the nurses' needs for scientific training. The University of
Maryland exists to meet the needs of the community, the State and the
nation. We should and must meet these needs."
BULLETIN OF THE NURSES ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
AURELIA C. WILLERS
Miss Aurelia C. Willers, R.N., has been appointed to the newly created
post of director of nursing service at University Hospital, according to Dr.
William S. Stone, director of medical education and research at the Uni-
versity of Maryland.
"Heretofore, the administrative position of dean of the school of nursing
and director of nursing service have been combined in one person," Dr.
Stone said.
"During the last ten years, the dual position has been held by Dean
Florence M. Gipe. Since the advent of the four-year degree course in the
School of Nursing, there has been an increasing realization by all con-
cerned that responsibilities of the position of dean were such as to require
the full and undivided attention of one person.
"Toward this end," Dr. Stone added, "the position of director of nursing
service was created."
Miss Willers is a native of Indiana and received her B.S. degree from
Indiana University. She graduated from the Indiana University School of
Nursing in 1930. Appointed as assistant head nurse at Riley Hospital, she
became head nurse in 1932.
For the following year, she was employed as clinical instructor at the
Indiana School of Nursing.
In 1938, she assumed the additional assignment of nursing arts instructor.
In 1942, she was recruiting nurse at the General Hospital at the Indiana
University Medical Center.
She became a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps in 1943
and served until late in 1945. For her distinguished foreign war record,
a part of which was under enemy bombing, she was awarded a Bronze
Star.
Her appointment at University Hospital was effective November 30, 1954.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
CHARLES VAN BUISKIRK
Many of us at University Hospital have probably passed in the corridors
or met on the wards adding a consultation note to a patient's chart, a tall,
reserved gentleman thoughtfully smoking a pipe. This "quiet man"
answers to the name of Doctor Charles van Buiskirk, Professor of Neu-
rology, a still relatively new department in the University of Maryland
School of Medicine. Dr. van Buiskirk who assumed his duties at the Uni-
versity, July 1st, 1954 was born in neighboring Pennsylvania.
A medical career was launched when he enrolled in pre-medical school
at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. After completing his basic
training, Dr. van Buiskirk entered Graduate School at St. Louis University
where he received his Master's degree in microanatomy as well as his Ph.D.
It was here that he became especially interested in the nervous system and
decided to specialize in neurology. After awhile it seemed "only natural
to be interested in the nervous system." At Albany Medical College, Dr.
van Buiskirk earned his M.D. Another important event in his life
occurred there when he met and married a nurse, as some of us may be
interested in knowing.
After an internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, he went on to
the University of Minnesota where he received special training in neu-
rology as well as a Master's degree in this field. From a teaching position
at the University, Dr. van Buiskirk came to Baltimore and the University
of Maryland.
His experience has been primarily in the clinical field rather than in
research. Since he is at home in the classroom, Dr. van Buiskirk hopes to
develop a neurological training program for residents in the near future.
As the program materializes, he hopes to be able to devote more time
to his pride and joy, a three-year-old daughter whose name causes his
eyes to sparkle and a smile to gather at his lips. Fly fishing for trout and
bass will consume most of his remaining leisure time.
We hope Dr. van Buiskirk continues his work at the University for we
are attempting to make him feel he is a member of our happy family.
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ALBERT GEORGE WNUK
A newcomer to our hospital since July is Mr. Albert George Wnuk,
Administrative Assistant and Director of Outpatient Department. Mr.
Wnuk was born on May 18, 1920 in Dickson City, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Wnuk graduated from the Memorial High School in Hanover
Township, Pennsylvania on June 6, 1938. He then entered the Mills School
for Nursing, Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York, graduating from
there in January, 1943.
He worked for one year for the U. S. Engineering Department Medical
Division in Costa Rica, Central America, in first aid, sanitation, and malaria
control. From 1944 to 1946 he was in the United States Army.
Attending Villanova College from 1947 to 1951, he received his Bachelor
of Science Degree and from there went to Columbia University, receiving
his Master of Science Degree in Hospital Administration. He gained his
experience as Administrative Resident at Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Before coming to the University of Maryland, Mr. Wnuk was at the
U. S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Wnuk states that he likes it very much at University, and we are glad to
welcome him.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 11
THE ANNUAL ALUMNAE BANQUET OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING
By Miriam Croft, Class of 1952, Chairman
Once again the main ballroom of the Emerson Hotel was the setting for
a gala affair when the Nurses Alumnae Association played hostess to the
fifty-one members of the graduating class on June 4, 1954.
Father William McCroy, from the parish of St. Peter the Apostle, offered
the invocation. Miss Martha Curtiss, president of the Alumnae Association,
greeted the graduates and introduced the classes celebrating their quinary
reunions beginning with the Class of 1924.
Our guest speaker was the Reverend Carter H. Harrison from St. John's
Church, Elizabeth City parish, Hampton, Virginia. The Reverend Dr.
Harrison left with us a most challenging and inspirational message.
Our guest of honor was Mrs. Sara Yarger, who came from Washington,
D. C, to celebrate the anniversary of the fiftieth year since her graduation.
Among the other honored guests were Dr. Florence Gipe, dean of the
School of Nursing; Mrs. Elizabeth Singleton, instructor and counselor in
the School of Nursing; Mr. George Buck, director of the University Hos-
pital, and Mrs. Buck; and Mrs. Harry Robinson, Jr., president of the
Women's Board of the University Hospital.
Dr. Gipe presented awards to the graduates who excelled in various areas
of the profession during their residence as nursing students.
On behalf of the Senior Class, Miss Katherine Swint, class president,
presented to Dr. Gipe a monetary gift to be applied to the Scholarship
Fund for students in the basic nursing programs.
After the banquet our evening was highlighted with dancing to the
delightful music of the Debonnaires.
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THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF
SARA DOUGHERTY YARGER, CLASS OF 1904
This reporter had a news tip that the Alumnae Association was to have
as guest of honor a graduate of the Class of 1904, Sara Talbot Dougherty
Yarger. Your reporter arrived early to interview this guest of honor and
looked carefully at each alumnae for one who might have the appearance
of a graduate with fifty years' experience. After a careful but unsuccessful
search for such a person, your reporter approached an attractive, bright-
eyed fellow alum to ask if she knew Mrs. Yarger. With an air of surprise
that someone could be looking for her, she identified herself as Mrs. Yarger,
and asked, "Is there something I can do for you?"
"Is there something I can do for you?" — a question followed by action
to offer help seems to have been a pattern by which Mrs. Yarger has lived
these fifty years of her full life since graduating from the University Hos-
pital Training School for Nurses, as our school was known in 1904. She
has given generously of time, effort and enthusiasm to her profession and
family. A shy person, Mrs. Yarger was more comfortable talking about
the changes that have been made in nursing since her graduation than in
talking about her many achievements.
It was just shortly after Leon Czolgosz shot and killed President William
McKinley in 1901 that Sara Talbot Dougherty entered the school where
she was to learn nursing. She recalled the most important moment of her
student days as the happy occasion in 1904 when she received her diploma.
On the night of the banquet Mrs. Yarger was wearing a circular pin on
the center of which was a red cross. Lettered on the circular part of the pin
were the Latin words Qui patitur vincit. Mrs. Yarger identified this as her
class pin which was designed by her class. Only thirteen of these pins were
made and the die was destroyed. Twelve of the pins were worn by the
members of Mrs. Yarger's class, and the thirteenth was presented to Miss
Katherine Taylor, the superintendent of nurses who later designed the cap
which is still worn by the student nurses at the University of Maryland.
Mrs. Yarger's first job as a graduate nurse was in a small hospital in
Savannah, Georgia, where she worked for a year before her marriage.
Following her marriage she moved to New Mexico where she worked
closely with the Indians in that region. Six short years after her marriage
her husband died of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. She returned to the
East with her young son to make her home in the nation's capital. Follow-
ing in his mother's footsteps, Mrs. Yarger's son also was graduated from
the University of Maryland.
Mrs. Yarger has recently retired as an admitting officer at Gallinger Hos-
pital in Washington. Reflecting back on her rich, full life, Mrs. Yarger
stated that her choice of a nursing career was indeed a happy one and that
her experiences in nursing have made it possible for her to understand the
mind of man and how it works.
To you, Sara Dougherty Yarger, on the occasion of your fiftieth anni-
versary, we extend our heartiest congratulations.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 13
REUNION CLASS NEWS
CLASS OF 1904
On May 4, 1904, a class of twelve nurses graduated from Maryland Uni-
versity Training School.
On June 4, 1954, this same class was invited to attend the banquet of
the Class of 1954; this in honor of fifty years of service in the field of
nursing. It was a disappointment, on arriving, to find no other members
of the class present; so I was the guest of honor. It was quite thrilling to
be escorted to the speakers table and to be introduced to the class, and
meet the younger nurses. There have been many changes in the fifty years,
greatest of which is a new hospital.
Sara Yarger
CLASS REUNION 1929
June 4, 1954, was a very gala occasion for the Class of 1929 who cele-
brated their twenty-fifth reunion.
The Baltimore members of the class played host to our out of town
members. Our reunion started Friday morning with a tour of the Univer-
sity Hospital and the new Psychiatric Unit which amazed all of us with
its beauty and modern equipment. Many of the members had not been
back to visit since graduation, and it was indeed a treat for them to see
the many changes, which we all agreed were wonderful. Following the
tour Mr. Stravides arranged a large table in the nurses' dining room so
that we could gather and have lunch. It was wonderful sitting there greet-
ing many old friends that we had known during our days at the Hospital.
Friday evening preceding the banquet we gathered at the home of Grace
E. Gosnell for a cocktail party and pictures. Next — to the banquet, where
a most enjoyable evening was spent by all. Saturday the class was enter-
tained at a luncheon at the home of Hilda Willis Evary at Pines on the
Severn. A delightful time was had by all. Many pictures were taken
during the two-day celebration which we shall enjoy looking at during the
years to come.
Those present for the reunion were: Vesta Swartz, Freda Fazenbaker
Gill, Eva Mae Bradburn Moulton, Grace Dick Gosnell, Edna Esterly Brice,
Lida Fite Lyons, Haddie Goodman Sapero, Daisy Mae Hastings McGregor,
Corinne Miller Reiber, Edith Morgan, Milbrey Neikirk, Mildred Rankin
Fisher, Betty Roth Hipp, Grace Thawley Bullok, Alberta Wagner, La Rue
Wetzel Martin, Hilda Willis Evary, Katherine Wright King, Ruth Young
Mace, and Evelyn Zapf. Miss Isabell Zimmerman, our class sponsor, was
guest of the class.
C. B. Gillis Hadden, of Jamaica, was unable to attend, but sent a very
nice letter and hopes to be able to attend the next one.
I am sure that all of us who attended this reunion are looking forward
to the next one in 1959. We hope that the next one will be attended 100%.
Grace E. Gosnfll
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REUNION OF THE CLASS OF 1934
Although twenty years have passed since we last met as a group, there
appears to be only minor changes such as the gray appearing among the
blonde, brunette and auburn heads. Certainly there are some who have
acquired a few more curves, while others appear a bit more lean, but these
outward changes slip into the background amid the gay greetings and
attempts to catch up on the many important events that have occurred in
the lives of each of us.
As I look about I see Lois, Izzy, Myra and Sue; Kitty, June, Wilda and
Elizabeth Koontz smiling as of old. Betty Rice, Betty Rhode, Polly, Ella,
Hazel and Hollis chatting happily. Miss Aitkenhead quietly smiling as she
looks about her at the class she guided so kindly through all of its up
and downs. Once again we hear the familiar expressions so characteristic
of each of the members.
Many of the fifteen present brought news of the absent members whom
we sorely missed. Did your ears ring? Many questions and answers flew
across the table and down its length. Exclamations of surprise and con-
gratulations were heard again and again as the stories unfolded to the
accompaniment of family photos and future plans.
As the evening drew to a close, we were all in accord — at our 25th
anniversary we must have all twenty-five of our class present. Start
saving your pennies right now, everyone of you. We shall all be looking
forward to 1959 and that all important day — our twenty-fifth anniversary
and a gala time. You will be there, won't you? I'll be looking forward
to seeing you.
Catherine A. O'Neil
REUNION OF THE CLASS OF 1939
By Margaret Culler Zell
The Class of 1939 celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in June of 1954
with a reunion at the annual banquet for the graduates. The day of the
banquet Nancy Sheppard entertained with a luncheon in her beautiful new
home in Catonsville. Most of the afternoon was spent in reminiscing, and
reading letters from those unable to attend. In spite of this, there was
still a constant buzzing of conversation during the banquet. Although all
twenty-one members were contacted, only eight of us were able to be present.
These were Nancy Craven Sheppard, Thelma Doyle Inskeep, Margaret
Wilson Webster, Dorothy Danforth Hope, Dorothy Shaff Walker, Lolah
Marshall Mihm, Mary Jane Roach and myself.
To those unable to be with us — we missed you and do hope to see you all
in '59 for our 20th.
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CLASS OF 1944
Along with other class milestones, last June heralded the tenth anni-
versary of the graduating class of 1944. It hardly seemed possible, and yet
it was true. For most of us it had been ten years since we had seen each
other. Yet that night at the alumnae banquet we felt as though it had
been only yesterday. Our student days came back in full focus as we
recalled long submerged memories and inquired after absent colleagues. We
reviewed the ten intervening years of personal histories very quickly. It
was interesting to learn the different fields of nursing into which circum-
stance and individual interests had led. Some of us discussed family life
and mused over photographs. It was a very pleasurable occasion.
We were very proud of our representation at the banquet. The Class
of 1944 had the largest percentage of members of any reunion class present.
There were over twenty, some travelling from as far as North Carolina,
Missouri, and Illinois. We sincerely missed those who were unable to
come; but we hope to see them all at the next reunion.
Alice Elste Brown
CLASS OF JUNE, 1949
By Eleanor M. Harrison
The Class of June, 1949, held its first five-year reunion on Friday,
June 4, 1954, at the Emerson Hotel with a great amount of reminiscing
and laughter. There were eight of us who donned our "Flossies" that
eventful day just five years before. Four of us returned with news about
ourselves and those who could not be with us.
Of the eight of us, three still live in Baltimore. Dorothy Bechtold Arthur
has the distinction of being the only one of us still working at University
Hospital. Jay Seiders Roemer and Peggy Walter Bitner have both retired
from active nursing and are at home raising their families.
Eleanor Harrison came down from Detroit, Michigan, especially for the
reunion. She is holding an industrial nursing position with the Chevrolet-
Detroit Spring and Bumper Division but hopes to return to Baltimore
sometime in the near future.
There was also news of our absent classmates. Jean Morne Manley has
moved into her new home in Wilmington, Delaware. Just three weeks
prior to the reunion, she welcomed a new daughter. Doris Royer Burgess
was unable to be with us as motherhood was about to make its appearance
for the third time. Doris Shipley Insley was quite busy moving to Danville,
Pennsylvania, where Dr. Insley is to be the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
resident at the local hospital. Marty Bollinger Holloway was busy getting
settled with her husband, Dr. Bill, who has just recently returned from
Korea, and her two children.
All of us are anticipating our next reunion in five more years with the
hopes that each of us may be there complete with pictures and much
more news to exchange.
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CLASS OF OCTOBER, 1949
We could hardly believe that five years had passed as we of the Class
of October, 1949, gathered together at the banquet to celebrate our first
reunion! We were especially glad to welcome Ana Maria Iuruetogoyena
who came all the way from Cuba to attend. She is a staff nurse at the
Anglo-American Hospital in Havana and reports that it is quite different
from the University of Maryland. She is visiting her sister, Gilda Litrenta,
who just resigned as head nurse on 3B to await an addition to her family.
Ruby Mellor Beitler is working at Prince George County Hospital as
her husband is stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D. C.
Mary Warner Babylon is working for Public Health in Carroll County.
Several of our classmates present have retired from active nursing to their
own Pediatrics Department. Helen Nuse Anderson and Marjorie Stewart
Bagley hold the record with three children. Maggie welcomed twins to
her household. Nancy Amadon Thomas left her husband and two children
in Gloversville, New York, to spend the evening with us.
Lois Doolittle Cook is a staff nurse at the Veterans Administration
Hospital on Loch Raven Boulevard. Dorothy Koerner Di Carlo has three
children and does part time duty in Obstetrics at City Hospital.
There are several of us still at University. Norma Schriver Long is
supervisor of third floor. Ginny Stull Flanigan is back at her favorite
spot — 9 BC. Phyllis Moody Johnson is head nurse and assistant supervisor
on Obstetrics.
Flo Ann Wright Bowen and Billie Alcorn Burkee joined us for the
dance. Flo Ann has two children and is living in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Billie and Fred have set up practice in Pennsylvania and have one child.
A good time was had by all, comparing notes and remembering our
never-to-be-forgotten days in the Nurses' Home. We missed all of our
classmates who were unable to attend and hope we can make our next
reunion a bigger one.
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PROGRAM CHANGES IN NURSING AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Two significant changes have been made in the curriculum of the Uni-
versity of Maryland School of Nursing and have been approved by the
Board of Regents.
The first provides for the discontinuance of the three-year diploma
course in nursing, which has been offered at University Hospital since 1902,
and substitutes a four-year course leading to the degree of bachelor of
science.
The second major change is the establishment of a one-year practical
nursing school. After successfully completing the course, students would be
eligible to be licensed as practical nurses.
These two alterations in the present program, George H. Buck, director
of the hospital observed, will greatly relieve the existing shortage of
nurses engaged in service in hospitals by making available fewer but more
highly trained professional nurses qualified for nursing administration
positions and providing many more nurses trained specifically for bedside
nursing only.
The new policy will become effective in September, when a new class
for the three-year nursing course would normally be enrolled. However, the
two classes now in this course will be continued on through graduation —
which means that the course will be kept active until the Summer of 1956.
Actually the School of Nursing at the university has conducted a four-
year degree program since 1952. Within the last two years the number
of applications for enrollment in the baccalaureate program has grown
steadily and now exceeds that of the three-year course.
The action of the board in limiting the curriculum to the four-year degree
course is in keeping with existing policy in other university schools of
nursing in this region including the universities of North Carolina, Texas
and Alabama, Vanderbilt University, and Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Dr. William S. Stone, recently appointed director of the medical sciences
division of the university, commenting on the changes, remarked, "We
are living in a new era of medicine and old plans are bound to be replaced
by new ones.
"The World Health Organization demands nurses with a college back-
ground," he went on. "The United States Army pays registered nurses
from diploma schools $4,000 a year to attend college so that they can
better meet the needs of the army.
"The professional nurses' work in the late war in Korea has recently
demonstrated the nurses' needs for scientific training. The University of
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Maryland exists to meet the needs of the community, the State and the
nation. We should and must meet these needs."
His views were echoed by Dr. Florence M. Gipe, dean of the School of
Nursing.
"The demand in a large medical center, the community, the State and
nation for nurses having a scientific background," Dr. Gipe said, "has
long been recognized by physicians, nursing educators and by nurses
themselves.
"The philosophy of professional nursing within the last three years has
changed tremendously."
— Reprinted from The Evening Sun, July 12, 1954.
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THE PROGRAM IN PRACTICAL NURSING
By Ethel M. Troy, Director
Time passes and in a dynamic world changes are wrought to meet
changing needs of the community.
There is no need to recount here the increased demands on professional
nurses which have increased the need for such personnel and at the same
time heightened the prestige of the registered nurse while also improving
her economic status.
Surveys have been made which show that throughout the country this
channelling of large numbers of graduate nurses into administrative and
teaching positions has resulted in increasing need for well trained bedside
nurses who can move into the "vacuum" resulting and support the pro-
fessional nurse in over-all care of the sick.
The Sub-Committee on Nursing Care which made a survey in Maryland
in 1950 for the State Planning Commission, through the Committee on
Medical Care, recognized this need and made specific recommendations
toward improving the condition.
During the ensuing years the School of Nursing, meeting the need in
another area, developed its professional program to concentrate on the
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. In view of these changes the Board
of Regents of the University of Maryland approved the unanimous recom-
mendations of the Faculty of the School of Nursing, which were, first to
discontinue the three -year diploma course and second, to inaugurate a one-
year course in Practical Nursing.
Despite the many problems attending the establishing of the Division of
Practical Nursing — budget, faculty, facilities, State Board approval and
selection of students — the first class was registered and began classes on
November 15, 1954.
Twenty-one (21) women of ages 18 to 50 are enthusiastically applying
themselves to learning the art of patient care in the classrooms provided
in the hospital, the Institute, the Out-Patient Department and in Gray
Laboratory. Supervised clinical experience is provided concurrently with
classes. Field trips will be organized to further the community awareness
of the students.
The program has been developed with the objective of preparing these
women to pass successfully the State Board of Nurses Examiners require-
ments and become Licensed Practical Nurses.
As one encounters these women in the hospital, identifying them by
their trig yellow uniforms and caps, one must be impressed with the
value of such a group who will find their services needed in hospitals, in
homes for convalescent and chronic cases, in private homes, in homes
for the aged, in public health agencies and other fields.
Civilian Defense authorities will welcome the strengthening of the com-
munity by the presence of these practically trained women.
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PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING AND PLACEMENT SERVICE
MARYLAND STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION
By M. Ruth Moubray
Executive Secretary and Counselor, Maryland State Nurses Association
Every nurse has the privilege of utilizing the Maryland State Nurses
Association Professional Counseling and Placement Service. No fee is
charged to nurses or to employers. The professional Counseling and Place-
ment Service is supported, as are other programs of the Maryland State
Nurses Association, by the dues of the members. However, membership is
not a requirement for use of this service.
In general, the following services are offered:
1. Counseling regarding professional, educational and vocational prob-
lems.
2. Selective referral of positions to nurses and nurses to positions accord-
ing to the interests, needs and qualifications of the registrants.
3. Information about opportunities in all fields of nursing.
4. Compilation of permanent, cumulative, confidential records of regis-
trants, thus preserving valuable reference material.
Briefly, this is the way PC & PS works. The nurse, wishing information
or wanting to discuss a problem, arranges for a personal interview with
the counselor. During the interview the nurse discusses her present situa-
tion, her interests and her professional preparation and experience. She
then files her application. The counselor ascertains from the American
Nurses' Association Professional Counseling and Placement Service whether
the nurse has a previous record with the Joint Vocational Service, the Nurse
Placement Service or the Professional Counseling and Placement Service
in another state. If she has a previous record it is brought up to date and
sent to the Maryland State Nurses Association Professional Counseling and
Placement Service. If she has no previous record the counselor proceeds to
obtain references from the school of nursing and from former employers.
She confirms registration and college or university study. Complete tran-
scripts from schools of nursing or from college or universities are not ob-
tained because a charge is usually made for them and because, when needed,
an original copy sent directly from the school is usually desired.
When all information possible has been obtained the counselor reviews
the complete record. She then provides the nurse with confidential infor-
mation regarding available jobs which are suited to her qualifications and
interests. When the nurse has decided that she wishes to apply for a job
she gives permission for the counselor to send a copy of her professional
biography to the prospective employer. Frequently the counselor arranges
for an interview between the applicant and the employer. If this is not
feasible she asks the nurse to communicate with the employer to arrange
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for the interview. The nurse is asked to keep the counselor informed of
development and, finally, whether she accepts the job. When she accepts a
job the employer is permitted to retain the professional biography as long
as she is employed, after which it should be returned to the PC & PS. If a
nurse wishes to engage in private duty nursing her professional biography
is referred to the Central Directory of Registered Nurses.
Employers inform the counselor from time to time about vacancies on
their staffs. The counselor also from time to time follows up on jobs and
attempts to keep information current regarding opportunities and needs
and about personnel practices. Jobs in the various fields of nursing are listed
with PC & PS, the greatest number being in general duty and the fewest
in industrial and office nursing. Jobs for day duty only are limited and
part-time employment is frequently difficult to obtain.
A national referral system is made possible through the ANA PC & PS
in Chicago. When qualified registrants are not available locally for posi-
tions in Maryland, the jobs are cross-filed with the ANA service for referral
to nurses interested in coming to this state. When nurses from Maryland
wish to obtain employment in some other part of the country copies of her
professional biography are cross-filed with the ANA service. The ANA
PC & PS then sends her confidential notices of positions available in the
locality where she wishes to go. However, if the nurse is interested in
going to a specific state where a PC & PS has been established the profes-
sional biography is cross-filed with the counselor in that state rather than
with the ANA. In those states where there is no PC & PS the Maryland
counselor frequently solicits information about job opportunities directly
from employers. Credentials for nurses who wish to go to other countries
and for nurses from other countries who wish to come to the United States
are handled through the International Unit of the ANA in cooperation
with state counselors. Opportunities in other countries are limited in most
instances to nurses who have special preparation for teaching, administra-
tion or public health. A knowledge of the language is usually required and
employment conditions are often less favorable than in this country.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING EDUCATION IN MARYLAND
1634-1940
By Florence Meda Gipe, Ed.D.
Dean of the School of Nursing
Dr. Gipe has given the Alumnae Bulletin permission to print Chapter 3,
Training Schools for Nurses Organized in Maryland 1889-1904, from her
Doctoral Dissertation which was submitted to the Graduate School of the
University of Maryland in 1952.
CHAPTER III
TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES ORGANIZED IN
MARYLAND 1889-1904
Training Schools for Nurses Associated with
Medical School Hospitals
The first steps leading to Nurse Practice Acts in the United States were
taken by the State of New York in 1901 when the Federation of Women's
Clubs passed a resolution endorsing the formation of a Board of Examiners
chosen by a state society of nurses and recommended the inclusion of
nursing education in the list of professions supervised by the regents. The
first state to carry a bill through, however, was North Carolina. The State
Society was formed in 1902 and its nursing bill about a year later. In 1904
Maryland became the fifth state to develop such an act.1
During the interim between the establishment of the first organized
school of nursing, Johns Hopkins, in 1889, and the passing of the Maryland
Nurse Practice Act, sixteen training schools for nurses had been organized
in Maryland. Moreover, the idea had generally been accepted by the Ameri-
can Medical Association who had appointed a committee as early as 1869
to study the problem of training nurses. The report issued at that time by
Dr. Samuel D. Gross, chairman, stated that:
. . . nursing in an exact sense was as much of an art and a
science as medicine, and that an educated intelligent, conscientious
nurse was a blessing to society while one of the opposite character
is a great evil, if not a positive disgrace.2
He further urged that training schools for nurses be established in con-
nection with every large hospital in all parts of the country, and that these
schools be sponsored and controlled by the medical profession. Twenty
years after the Association's report the first school of nursing under medical
control was opened in Maryland by the Faculty of Physic of the University
of Maryland.3 Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses having previ-
1 Lavina L. Dock and Isabel M. Stewart, A Short History of Nursing, G. P. Putnam's
Sons, New York, pp. 147-157.
2 "The transactions of the American Medical Association New Orleans, May 4th to
May 7th, 1869, Report of the Committee on the Training of Nurses," Vol. XX, pp.
161-174.
3 Records of the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses, "Survey Report on
the Inspection of the Training School of the University of Maryland," June 10, 1908.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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ously been established was under the control of the layboard of trustees of
the University and of the Hospital.
University of Maryland Faculty of Physic Training School for Nurses,
Baltimore, December 15, 1889. Although the Baltimore Infirmary, Univer-
sity Hospital, had been established in 1823 the controlling body, the Faculty
of Physic, did not make plans to open an organized training school for
nurses until two months after the opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Training School. The University of Maryland Training School so far as it
is known thus became the forty-second so-called professional school for
nurses in the United States.
The work of caring for the sick and injured in the Baltimore Infirmary
was satisfactorily demonstrated for a period of fifty-seven years (1823-1880)
by two groups of Catholic Sisters, the Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of
Mercy. Because the Sisters, however, complained that the religious rights
of their orders were being trespassed upon by the "Doctors of Physic," the
latter decided to open a professional school of nursing. The Baltimore
American of December 15, 1889, gave an account of sixteen Sisters of
Mercy and the Superior, Sister Mary Augustine, leaving the hospital, and
of the arrival of the new Superintendent of Nurses, "Louisa Parsons for-
merly of St. Thomas Hospital, London, and still more lately of the Johns
Hopkins." The account continued with the following:
Miss Parsons will be the Superintendent of the nurses training
quarters and will educate the probationers in the art of caring for
the sick. Miss Flynn will have charge of the domestic part of the
hospital.4
The dual administrative arrangement was intended to separate nursing
education from nursing service, but because of the urgency for nursing
service the intent of the arrangement was not carried into action. The
nursing school from the beginning was incorporated with the medical
school and hospital and was called the University of Maryland Faculty of
Physic Training School for Nurses.3
In the first annual circular of the School of Medicine, following the
opening of the Training School, there is this announcement:
The growing demand for the services of trained nurses has in-
duced the hospital authorities to establish a nursing school in con-
nection with the service. As superintendent they have been for-
tunate enough to secure Miss Louisa Parsons late of St. Thomas
Hospital of London and of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more, as well as of the nursing staff during Sir Larnet Wolsley's
Egyptian Campaign. Under her guidance the pupils in the school
are instructed in all that pertains to scientific nursing. Lectures are
4 Baltimore American, Sunday morning, December 15, 1889, p. 5.
5 Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses, Brief Report of the First Survey of
Training Schools in Maryland. The University of Maryland Faculty of Physic Training
School for Nurses, June 10, 1908, p. 2.
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also delivered to them by the members of the Faculty of Physic on
Elementary Anatomy and Physiology, Materia Medica, Chemistry,
Antisepsis, and Hygiene as well as upon nursing in special prac-
tice. The nursing in the hospital is thus conducted on the most
approved plan and its large material is available to the pupils of
the school. For information about the Training School address
Miss Louisa Parsons, Superintendent Maryland University Hos-
pital, corner Greene and Lombard Streets, Baltimore.6
The title of the school of nursing during the early years seems somewhat
vague and confusing. The vagueness may have led to the misunderstanding
that existed between the Faculty of Physic and the Directors of the Training
School in relation to the proper line of authority,7 and probably caused the
great turnover in the office of the Superintendent of Nurses that existed for
many years.
Three student nurses enrolled December 16, 1889. Intermittent admis-
sions, however, are recorded the entire first year. In succeeding years stu-
dents were admitted in the spring and in the fall.
The University of Maryland nursing course, similar to the one at Johns
Hopkins, was planned for two years by Louisa Parsons and Dr. McClain
Tiffany. Usually two hours of lectures a week were given by the doctors
and daily ward demonstrations were given by Miss Parsons assisted by Miss
Hanum and Miss Carroll, graduate nurses, who also assisted in the operat-
ing room and in the medical wards.8 Fields covered in lectures included
materia medica, surgery, diseases of the eye, obstetrics, nervous diseases,
dietetics, bacteriology, communicable diseases, and subjects related to prac-
tical nursing.
Student uniforms, designed by Florence Nightingale, consisted of gray
and white striped cotton dresses, white aprons with square bibs, black
stockings and black high topped shoes. The cap, made of point d'esprit,
was patterned and first made by Miss Nightingale, who presented it to
Miss Parsons for her first nursing school when she came to the United
States. The cap was given to Miss Parsons' first class of students at Univer-
sity Hospital on March 15, 1890, three months after they had entered.9
6 Eighty-Fourth Annual Circular of the School of Medicine of the University of Mary-
land, Baltimore, 1890-1891, p. 15.
7 Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1907-1908, "The Uni-
versity Training School for Nurses," p. 76. Bulletin of the University of Maryland
School of Medicine and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1917-1918, "University
Hospital Training School for Nurses," p. 101. 1918-1919, "University Hospital Training
School for Nurses," p. 102. 1923-1924, "University Hospital School of Nursing," p. 71.
1924-1925, "University of Maryland School of Nursing," p. 71. 1925-1926, "University
of Maryland School of Nursing," p. 71. Student nurses' records as late as 1940 read
University Hospital School of Nursing. In 1940 the University of Maryland School of
Nursing is listed as an integral part of the University. See University of Maryland an-
nouncement 1940-1941.
8 For additional personnel in schools described in Chapter III, see Appendix.
9 A letter from Anna Louise Katherine Schleunes, a member of the first graduating
class (1892) University of Maryland School of Nursing, to the Nurses' Alumnae Asso-
ciation, December 1940.
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The first day students entered the Nursing School, they were sent to
the wards to work. One calendar month was assigned as a probation term.
Following this period a large reception was given to them by the wives of
the faculty of the School of Physics. The occasion was used to acquaint the
public with the new "movement." Directly or soon after this probation
period student nurses were assigned to the operating room as assistants,
but "Louisa Parsons was present always to direct the work and to instruct
the pupils." In 1890, a new nurses' residence, costing ten thousand dollars,
was erected adjacent to the hospital.10
After two years of pioneering, Louisa Parsons resigned and returned to
England.11 Mrs. Sidney Miller, who was an instructor in the Training
School, succeeded Miss Parsons. Under Mrs. Miller's direction the first class
of nurses was graduated on May 4, 1892.12 Following this graduation exer-
cise Mrs. Miller resigned and was succeeded by Mrs. Mary Wilton, a
graduate of Women's Hospital, Philadelphia. Mrs. Wilton was succeeded
in turn by Janet Hale, a member of the first graduation class, who remained
as head of the school until 1898.13 This constant turnover in nursing ad-
ministrators in the first years of the school was undoubtedly due to the
strong disagreement between the doctors and the training school heads in
respect to the philosophy of nursing education.
The three-year course was adopted in 1902 mainly because it had become
the "general custom." At the time of its adoption fifty-five students were
in training and admission standards were being emphasized. In an early
circular of the Training School the following is noted:
Good mental and physical health. At least twenty-three years of
age. Ability to read and write legible English with a clear under-
standing of mental arithmetic. Unless the candidate shows evidence
of a certificate in higher education a qualifying examination must
be passed before the applicant can be admitted.14
The first year after the three-year course was instituted there were
seventy-five applicants. Of these, twenty-five were accepted as "probation
nurses"; twelve were finally admitted to the school. The student nurses
cared for three hundred and fifty-seven patients in 1902 and the Training
School became very well established and was well received by the com-
munity. In a news report of May 11, 1906, when Miss Nellie Flanagan, a
10 Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell, The Medical Annals of Maryland, 1799-1899. Williams
and Wilkins Co., Baltimore 1903, p. 722.
11 Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumnae Magazine, January 1917, Vol. 16, n. 1, p. 4.
Louisa Parsons died in England on November 4, 1916, during World War I. Dr. Wil-
liam Osier, then Sir William Osier, who had gone to England to give his last years of
service there sent the Johns Hopkins nurses an interesting account of her military
funeral held at the Parish Church of Shinfella, Berkshire, "an unusual scene probably
in its history of more than 1000 years."
12 Esther Horine, Bulletin of the Nurses' Alumnae Association, "A Brief History of
the University of Maryland School of Nursing," 1940, pp. 13-14.
13 Yearbook of the Training School University Hospital, "Miseris Succurrere Disco,"
Vol. 1, p. 31, Baltimore, 1905.
14 Circular of the Training School of Maryland University Hospital, Baltimore, June
10, 1900, p. 1.
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1902 graduate of the school, directed the student nurses, the following was
recorded:
As a department of the educational work of the University of
Maryland the Training School for Nurses is upholding a standard
which will command the respect and confidence of the public.
The graduates of this school are showing that their training is
up-to-date, and in keeping with the best traditions of the Univer-
sity system, which has aimed to be practical, conscientious and
thorough in the method of instruction.13
Again in 1907 and 1908 there were vacancies in the office of the Super-
intendent of Nurses. It was at this time that Dr. Arthur M. Shipley and
Dr. Robert P. Bay, both renowned surgeons, assumed the responsibility for
the Nursing School. It was evident from the change from nurses to doctors
as administrative heads of the school, that the Faculty of Physic had won
the first skirmish regarding the control of the school.
Curriculum changes and addition of courses may be noted from the early
records of the student nurses which were kept in large durable cloth bound
books, but these records are not detailed. Alice Bell Piggott, a graduate
nurse of the 1907 class, having previously graduated from a State Normal
School, established the "Bell Record System" which was finally adopted in
many schools throughout the United States. Miss Bell later served as head
of the Training School from 1908-1910. Planned lectures at this time were
as follows:
Anatomy 30 hours
Physiology 10 hours
Surgical Nursing 20 hours
Medical Nursing 20 hours
Children's Diseases 10 hours
Obstetrics 15 hours
Eye and Ear 5 hours
Bacteriology 15 hours
Massage 5 hours
Bandaging 5 hours
Urinalysis 5 hours
Materia Medica 10 hours
Dietetics 15 hours
Food 10 hours
Senior Nursing 10 hours
Medical Ethics 10 hours16
In 1911 Mrs. Ethel Palmer Clarke, a graduate of the school, became the
directing head. Mrs. Clarke was an able administrator who had been a
student in nursing education at Teachers College, Columbia, for several
years. Under her direction there was a growth toward a sound philosophy
of education.
15 The Sun, Saturday, May 11, 1906, p. 5.
16 Early Records of the Training School of the Maryland University Hospital, 1889-
1905.
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In 1921 there were eighty -eight pupil nurses in training. Efficiency records
which indicated personality characteristics and capabilities of students were
kept by head nurses. On some of these records may be found notations
such as "winning personality," "cheerful and happy," "gives service with a
smile," "neat," "quiet," "a good manager," "observant and exact."17
There was no indication of how well the student nurse applied under-
lying principles of anatomy and physiology, bacteriology or materia medica.
The extent of service seemed to be the determining factor in rating a nurse.
The 1923 school circular gives the following information for prospective
students:
Vacation — 4 weeks
Earnings — $5.00 a month
Course — Probationer and Junior Student
Anatomy and Physiology
64 hours
Dietetics
20 hours
Dosage and Solutions
12 hours
Materia Medica
32 hours
Ethics
10 hours
Household Economics
8 hours
Hygiene
20 hours
Chemistry
30 hours
Bandaging
8 hours
Surgery
16 hours
Bacteriology
32 hours
Introduction to Medicine
10 hours
Nursing technique
60 hours
Charting
4 hours
Intermediate Student
Communicable diseases
20 hours
Medicine
20 hours
Ethics
8 hours
Gynecology
10 hours
Massage
12 hours
Obstetrics
20 hours
Operating room technique
10 hours
Orthopedics
10 hours
Pediatrics
20 hours
Laboratory methods
16 hours
Senior Student
Special diseases,
venereal diseases, eye, ear,
nose and throat, skin
24 hours
Psychiatry
20 hours
11 Efficiency Records, the University of Maryland Training School, 1921-1925, Balti-
more, Maryland.
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History of ethics of nursing 12 hours
Hospital organization
and administration 2 hours
Public health and social
service 16 hours18
In 1924 an affiliation of eight weeks each for pediatrics and psychiatry
was established with the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School and in
1929 an affiliation with the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital was estab-
lished to provide three months' training in nursing in psychiatry. In the
same year, 1929, the Hopkins pediatric affiliation was discontinued because
the University had opened a separate children's division.
Probably the most important step in the growth and development of the
Nurses Training School of the University of Maryland occurred after the
consolidation of the Maryland College of Agriculture, College Park, and
the University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1920. 19 At the time of consolidation
the Training School was listed as a department of the hospital.20 Follow-
ing the amalgamation of the College Park and Baltimore schools, the
Board of Regents was empowered to permit any department, faculty, or
school of the University of Maryland to govern itself, in whole or in part.
In a section of the document confirming the amalgamation there appears
this statement:
And be it further enacted that the Regents of the University
of Maryland shall have power to conduct or maintain such de-
partments or schools in said University and in such localities as
they from time to time deem wise.21
This authorization did not immediately affect the control of the nursing
school but was to serve as an instrument which could be used when in-
dependent status was achieved. In the meantime, certain movements were
under way in nursing which were undoubtedly to play their part in in-
fluencing universities to set up independent nursing schools. During the
period from 1920-1925 much interest and concern were shown by the
National League of Nursing Education in the establishment of Univer-
sity controlled schools. In 1921 a committee on University Relations was
appointed by the National League to investigate nursing schools associated
with or controlled by colleges and Universities,22 for the purpose of en-
couraging those schools to offer college courses to nurses.
18 Circular of Information, The University of Maryland School of Nursing, 1923-1924.
19 Official Publication of the University of Maryland, Vol. 17, no. 1, July 1920, p. 25.
20 Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and College of Physicians
and Surgeons, "The University Hospital Training School for Nurses," Vol. VI, no. 1,
July 1921, p. 72.
21 Laws of Maryland of 1920, Section 4, Chapter 480, p. 807.
22 Isabel Maitland Stewart, The Education of Nurses, The Macmillan Co., New York,
1948, p. 220.
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Concurrently with the movement towards independence of nursing
schools from medical or hospital control, the status of the University of
Maryland School of Nursing did not grow apace. The official publication
of the University of Maryland for 1920 and 192123 gives no information
whatsoever in regards to nursing, but the School of Medicine carries an
announcement in 1925 which reads:
The University of Maryland School for Nurses was established
in the year of 1889. Since that time it has been an integral part of
the University Hospital, coming under the same government.24
In 1925 the University of Maryland announced a program leading to a
Bachelor of Science degree for nurses. The Evening Sun of March 19, 1925,
carried the following announcement:
With enrollment starting in September, the University of Mary-
land will offer a five-year course in nursing which will carry the
degree of Bachelor of Science . . . Miss Annie Creighton, Super-
intendent of Nurses at the University of Maryland Hospital, made
the announcement . . . today. The new course is said to be the first
opportunity given young women in Maryland to obtain the Bache-
lor of Science degree in nursing.
The first two years of the course will be devoted to studies in
the College of Arts and Sciences at College Park. This will be
followed by three years of practical nursing in the University
Hospital.
The opportunity will also be given students in the last half of
the fifth year to prepare for special work in social science, hospital
management, laboratory work and other fields. The present three
years' course in Nursing will be retained.20
A more detailed account of the new five-year program is to be found in
the Official Publication of the University of Maryland:
In addition to the regular three-year course of training the Uni-
versity offers a combined Academic and Nursing Program leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Science and a diploma in Nursing.
The first two years of the course (or pre-hospital period), con-
sisting of 70 semester hours, are spent in the College of Arts and
Sciences of the University, during which period the student has an
introduction to the general cultural subjects which are considered
fundamental in any college training. At least the latter of these
two years must be spent in residence at College Park in order that
23 See the University of Maryland Catalogue 1920-1921 Educational Units, p. 3.
24 Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he. cit., Vol. X, no. 1,
July 1925, p. 83.
25 The Evening Sun, Thursday, March 19, 1925, p. 31.
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the student may have her share in the social and cultural activities
of college life. The last three years are spent in the School of
Nursing in Baltimore.26
In 1926 two young women were admitted to the College of Arts and
Sciences in the Pre-Nursing course. Both students had better than a "B"
average. Following their two years of college work they were admitted to
the University of Maryland School of Nursing as students but they re-
signed before completing the course, the reasons having been given that
the "classwork was not challenging," hours on duty were too long, and
that they were treated as "menials."2' In 1934 five young women success-
fully completed the five-year course.28 The course of study pursued in the
School of Nursing for college students in 1934 was the same as the course
for high school students. In 1936, however, field work in Public Health
nursing was added to the curricula of the college students.
In the same 1925 Official Publication the School of Nursing is listed as
an independent educational unit. The Director of the School of Nursing,
Miss Annie L. Creighton, a Johns Hopkins graduate, was appointed in
1922, and is listed as a member of the faculty of the University. From 1925,
some four years after the amalgamation and the beginning of a national
movement for independent schools of nursing, the University of Maryland
School of Nursing came under the official control of the Board of Regents
and the President. The official publication of the Medical School in 1927
lists the School of Nursing as an integral part of the University, coming
under the same government.29 Official publications of the University of
Maryland from 1925 to 1940 list the School of Nursing as a separate school.
The President of the University appoints the director and the faculty.30
In 1895 the graduates of the University of Maryland formed an Alumnae
Association, with Elinor Vansantwoart as the first president. This Alumnae
Association later became incorporated with the General Alumnae Associa-
tion of the University.
Between 1889 and 1940 in the State of Maryland, the University of
Maryland School of Nursing provided nurses to the following community
agencies in Maryland, as indicated in the numbers below:
City Health Department 50
Maryland State Health Department 21
Babies Milk Fund Association 41
26 Official Publication of the University of Maryland, "The University of Maryland
School of Nursing," Vol. X, no. 1, July 1925, p. 87.
-" Student Nurse Records, The University Hospital, 1927.
-& For names of graduates see Appendix.
-9 Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, op. cit., Vol. XII, no
1, p. 87.
30 Records of the School of Nursing, University of Maryland School of Nursing, 1927-
1928.
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Instructing Visiting Nurses' Association 4
Industrial Nursing 8
Directors Schools of Nursing,
throughout the United States 3531
Beginning as a small unit or a department of the hospital in 1889 the
training school, later identified as the School of Nursing of the University
of Maryland, had by 1940 grown to a size of more than two hundred regu-
lar students and had a teaching faculty of six college professors from the
medical school and eleven registered nurses32 from the nursing school who
were instructors in full or part time in the School of Nursing.
31 Horine, op. cit., p. 19.
32 Annual Report of the School of Nursing of the University of Maryland, July 7,
1940, pp. 1-5.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STUDENTS' TEACHING
IN PRENATAL CLINIC
By Marguerite E. Hydorn
Assistant Professor, Obstetric Nursing
University of Maryland School of Nursing
The subject of teaching a patient in the hospital to function adequately
in the home environment has made many nurse-educators review and revise
their course outline to make patient-centered teaching more effectual. Plans
for this study were stimulated by the need for revision of the Obstetric
course outline with emphasis on positive health education involving to a
greater degree the environment of the lower income group. The area of
prenatal teaching was delegated to the students in Obstetric Nursing since
the Prenatal Clinic is considered the foundation for good health and nor-
mal development of the baby and for stabilizing and maintaining the
mother's health.
The problem for this study was: are we adequately teaching the students
in Prenatal Clinic to instruct our patients about the care of themselves and
the infant on discharge from the hospital?
The purposes of the study were: 1) to determine how the content of the
classes was received by the patients. 2) To evaluate how much of the con-
tent was retained by the patients. 3) To determine if the experience was of
any value to the students. 4) To determine if the program was adequate.
To obtain as broad a coverage as possible, twenty-five case studies were
selected from each of the three groups: 1) unmarried women who were
expecting their first child; 2) married women who were expecting their
first child; 3) married women who had experienced previous childbirth.
All of the above were colored and young women of limited financial means
who regularly attended University of Maryland Hospital Prenatal Clinic.
A check-list questionnaire (Figure I) was sent to each mother in the
groups when delivered and discharged from the hospital in order to give
a basis of comparison of their attitude towards, and assimilation of, the
material furnished them as well as their own ideas of the value received.
A second questionnaire was forwarded to those mothers who had not re-
plied in two weeks. The total response from the questionnaires was 61 1/3
per cent.
The attendance in classes showed the preference and the desires of the
"mother-groups" for help and instruction. The single primipara (delivered
first child) showed great interest in the offered attention but expressed
little preference to the units offered. Their greatest expression of value was
shown in the unit on Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs
and the least interest was shown in the units dealing with the expectant
child which showed a marked distaste for their pregnancy.
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FIGURE I. QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO MOTHERS
1. Check the meetings you attended while in the maternity
clinic.
a. Anatomy and Physiology (How your body is built
and how the baby grows inside you).
b. Nutrition (What foods are important to your body).
c. Hygiene of Pregnancy (Cleanliness, exercise, work
and clothes to wear while you are pregnant).
d. Baby's Bath.
e. Formula Preparation.
f. Making a Home for the Baby.
2. Which of the above classes was most meaningful to you?
3. Did the discussion you attended answer your questions about
Yes No how to care for yourself while you were expecting the baby?
4. Did the discussions help you in getting the things ready for
Yes No the new baby?
5. After the baby was born, were you frightened about handling
Yes No and caring for the baby while you were in the hospital?
6. After you went home from the hospital, did you feel the
Yes No nurses told you enough about caring for yourself and the
baby ?
7. After you went home from the hospital, did you have any
Yes No trouble in caring for yourself? If so, what?
8. After you went home from the hospital, did you have any
Yes No trouble in any way in caring for the baby? If so, what?
9. How many children of your own do you have?
10. Are you caring for your own baby?
11. How old are you?
To determine the effectiveness of the program, 50 per cent of the ques-
tions were based on the mother's own determination of help offered by
our Prenatal Clinic. An 87 per cent efficiency rating was the result.
The portion of the questionnaire which gave voluntary information from
the "mother-groups" with troubles they experienced at home, either in the
care of themselves or with the child, showed that the information regard-
ing infant bathing and dressing and the postpartum breast care should be
reviewed and intensified.
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The series of instruction to the expectant mothers were given by the
students of nursing in the three-year program of the University Hospital.
Each of the students was assigned to one of the six sections as a clinical
instructor to prepare and to teach three sessions of the same unit to the
patients who were attending the clinic. Each student was furnished with
an identical check-list questionnaire (Figure II) after her period of service
had expired. This questionnaire was to give a basis of comparison of their
attitudes and desirabilities as instructors as well as their own ideas con-
cerning the service each had rendered.
FIGURE II. QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO STUDENT TEACHERS
Prenatal Teaching
1. Check the name of the class you taught in maternity clinic
to expectant mothers.
a. Anatomy and Physiology
b. Nutrition during Pregnancy
c. Hygiene of Pregnancy
d. Bathing the Baby
e. Formula Preparation
f. Making a Home for the Baby
2. Would you have selected another topic rather than the one
Yes No assigned to you?
3. When planning to teach the class, did you feel you received
Yes No sufficient aid in preparing the outline to teach?
4. Did you receive adequate help in locating posters and films
Yes No to help you teach?
5. Did you feel you were adequately prepared to teach the
Yes No class? If no, why not?
6. Did you feel the class you taught was helpful to the ex-
Yes No pectant mothers at the time you were teaching?
7. Did you have a conference with the supervising teacher
Yes No after you taught?
8. Did you feel the conference helped you with the teaching?
Yes No If no, why not?
9. Since you have left Obstetrics, has this experience of teaching
Yes No in Maternity Clinic benefited you in any other area? If yes,
how?
10. Do you think that teaching expectant mothers' classes should
Yes No continue to be a part of the student's experience in Obstetrics?
-11. Do you feel the topics we offer our patients are adequate?
Yes No If not, what are your suggestions?
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Twenty-two of the twenty-nine students questioned stated that they were
satisfied to take their assignment to a specific unit with no degree of prefer-
ence as to the order in which they were rotated. The questionnaire also
showed that if the teacher expends the necessary effort, adequate teaching
aids were available, and, in the minds of student-teachers, were helpful and
necessary in order to adequately cover the subject to the benefit of the
"mother-group."
One-fifth of the student-teachers returning their questionnaires answered
negatively as to the value of these procedures but failed to state any reason
or to suggest any improvement.
The analysis of the student-teachers' questionnaires brought to light that
they were assigned to too many highly technical units without first deter-
mining if they had themselves acquired sufficient knowledge of the subject.
This was particularly noticed in the subject of Anatomy and Physiology.
It was also determined that one-sixth of the student-teachers did not feel
that the course was helpful to the mothers in the single and married primi-
para group because of their lack of interest in the unwanted child.
The question of continuation, review and improvement met with favor-
able response from the student-teachers.
Through the analysis and comparison of the questionnaires, both of the
"mother-groups" and student-teachers, it has been proven to my satisfaction
that the services rendered by the student nurses as instructors are of vital
importance and almost a necessity to the types of expectant mothers that
we serve through the University of Maryland Clinic services. By the same
token, I am sure that student nurses teaching in other institutions that do
not have this extreme racial problem will be of equal or a greater benefit to
their expectant mothers.
I feel that it has been adequately proven by the answers of our student-
teachers that this procedure is also of great value to each of them, both in
the clinical and educational area.
This survey has brought to light certain faults which must be corrected.
The most important of these being a more careful determination of pre-
paredness of the teacher before assignment to a section.
An increased usage of visual aids must be given by the teachers as many
of the mothers who have need for these clinical services have difficulty in
assimilating text material.
In our request for suggestive courses, the following topics have been
recommended by either the teacher or one of her patients:
1. What to expect in the hospital with a conducted hospital tour.
2. Expectant fathers' classes.
3. Pediatric care — immunizations and illnesses.
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4. Family preparation for the arrival. This subject is covered in Hygiene
of Pregnancy.
5. Classes for the private patients.
6. Classes for the white clinic patients.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adair, Fred Lyman, M.D., Chairman, Part IV, Obstetric Education of the
Laity and Social Workers, White House Conference on Child Health and
Protection. New York, New York: The Century Co., c. 1932. 193 pp.
Davis, M. Edward, M.D., and Carmon, Mabel C, R.N., DeL.ee' s Obstetrics
for Nurses. Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Co., 1947. 619 pp.
DeLee, Joseph, M.D., and Greenhill, J. P., M.D., Principles and Practices
of Obstetrics. Philadelphia, Pa.: W. B. Saunders Co. Ninth Edition,
969 pp.
Prenatal Care. U. S. Children's Bureau Publication No. 4. Washington,
D. C: Government Printing Office, 1949. 70 pp.
Zabriskie, Louise, R.N., and Eastman, Nicholson J., M.D., Nurses' Hand-
boo ^ of Obstetrics. Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Co. Eighth Edition,
706 pp.
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FLUID TEAM
Dorothy Arthur, '49
As hospitals across the nation came to realize the value of the Fluid
Team, the University Hospital inaugurated such a plan on September 27,
1951. The major objective of the team is to administer intravenous fluids
to patients thereby releasing the interns and other house officers to assume
other medical responsibilities. This unit was organized on the recommen-
dation of a committee made up of representatives from the departments of
nursing, medicine and administration.
It was felt that such a move would be in keeping with the national trend
toward increasing the responsibility of the professional nurse. By freeing
the doctors of the responsibility of administering intravenous fluids, they
were able to perform other duties thereby improving the quality of medical
care given to patients.
The team administers specific intravenous and subcutaneous fluids as
ordered by the medical staff. In obstetrics the team may administer all
fluids but procaine and pitocin drip to ante-partum patients. The fluid team
works in all divisions of the hospital except the Operating Room and the
Delivery Room.
This team is a unit of nursing service and has its headquarters in the
Central Supply Room. The team is under the medical supervision of Dr.
Milton Sachs, chief of Clinical Pathology.
Students in the School of Nursing receive experience on the fluid team.
At present there are four registered nurses who make up this team.
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A CARDIO-PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY —
ITS FUNCTION IN A UNIVERSITY TEACHING CENTER
By R. Adams Cowley, M.D., Director Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
It has been said that it has taken the surgeon 2000 years to reach the
heart and lungs, a distance the thickness of the chest wall.
Unlike abdominal surgery, thoracic surgery has been forced to wait
because of several factors. Primarily, a technique of anesthesia was needed
which would allow the patient to live while the chest was open for
exploration. Then, too, a development of blood transfusions and intra-
venous therapy was vital for patient survival. A complex variety of surgical
instruments, particularly in the field of vascular surgery was then needed
to perform the various surgical techniques. After these barriers were
removed, thoracic surgery became almost unlimited in scope. Diseases of
the chest, heretofore incurable and often fatal, now became amenable to
the surgical art.
With the refinements and advances in the thoracic surgical techniques,
it became apparent that for the specialty to progress further, more had to
be known about each patient. A good history, physical examination and
x-ray was not enough. More knowledge was essential about the patient's
normal physiology and how these physiological processes had been altered
by disease.
Previously, studies involving the physiology of the heart and lungs had
been only of academic interest. Now these studies have become the foun-
dation for new methods of diagnosis, evaluation and treatment. Today,
it is not enough for the surgeon to know that the patient has a disease
which can be cured by surgery but he must know, too, that his treatment
will not harm the patient. For example, what is good for one patient with
tuberculosis is not good for another, even though, the roentgenograms of
the chest seem apparently the same. Why does removal of a pulmonary
lesion in one patient result in a cured ambulatory patient in the one case
and in another patient result in a respiratory cripple? Which patient will
benefit from chest surgery, and which patient will not? The answers to
these questions and many related questions were not known. The dramati-
cally revealing answers have awaited the development of the Cardio-
pulmonary Physiology Laboratory. Such a laboratory functions for exam-
ining and comparing the diseased lung with that of the normal lung and
for determining how specific diseases alter the physiology of circulation and
ventilation. The resulting studies help not only to predict a surgical result
but also to study the effect of various medications used in the medical
treatment of pulmonary diseases. They are further used as a way to
evaluate and study the patient during treatment. Studies are made by:
(1) measuring how much air a lung can hold; (2) measuring how much
air can be breathed within certain time limits, both quietly and under
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 39
stress; (3) measuring how quickly the patient is able to move air in and
out of the lungs; (4) measuring how much oxygen can be extracted from
the air and how much C02 can be given off by the lungs.
In such a study one cannot properly separate the lungs from the circula-
tion because some patients have symptoms of pulmonary disease that are
not due to disease of the lungs at all but due rather to the circulating blood
which flows through them. Hence, samples of blood taken at various points
are necessary to determine what effect the circulation has upon the problem
as a whole. This then is the second function of the Cardio-Pulmonary
Laboratory — the study of the heart and circulation. Studies, such as electro-
cardiography, vectorcardiography, oximetry, angiocardiography and cardiac
catheterization all have places in such a laboratory.
Results of these studies are essential to the cardiac surgeon because he
must know exactly what type of defect is present, where the defect is located
and how best to correct it in order to produce a more normal circulation.
Exploration of the heart and great vessels is too hazardous a procedure
to not have the available facts at the operation table. Thus, there must be
equipment available to measure the pressures and to take samples of blood
in the heart chambers, great vessels and lungs. These things are all done
by cardiac catheterization in which a small catheter enters a vein in the
arm and follows the blood stream on its way through the heart. Angio-
cardiography, the technique of taking rapid x-rays while the contrast mate-
rial circulates through the heart, gives one photographs in which can be
studied at leisure the circulating blood as it passes through the heart cham-
bers and lungs. Oximetry is a technique in which one can tell by attaching
a small device to the ear how much oxygen is in the blood at a specific time.
All of these studies can be done in the Cardio-Pulmonary Physiology
Laboratory. It is a type of work which involves a large amount of equip-
ment and a team of doctors and technicians working in unison. After
such studies have been made on a patient, many hours are then spent in
calculating the results and arriving at a proper diagnosis.
In the field of research, such a laboratory is an essential tool in the study
of the normal and abnormal functions of the heart and lungs. It is only
through such a laboratory that the knowledge of these organs, so vital to
the physician, can be discerned without resorting to the surgical exploration.
40 BULLETIN OF THE NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 1954 CONVENTION
By Hortense B. Tegler, Class of 1948
The 1954 Convention of the American Nurses Association was held
from April 25-30 in Chicago, Illinois. The theme for the convention was
"Calling American Nurses to Action."
Present were members of 53 constituents of the ANA and 52 guests
representing 26 countries. They were Formosa, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Switzerland, Japan, England, Denmark,
Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, France, Norway, Sweden, China,
Lebanon, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Guate-
mala. The 54th constituent to the ANA is the 65 Virgin Islands nurses
admitted on a waiver because some are from non-accredited schools of
nursing. Also welcomed was the Isthmanian Delegation, voted admission
to the ANA in 1952.
The meeting of the House of Delegates opened with greetings from our
now past president, Mrs. Elizabeth Porter. As special guest was General
Chow Mui Yu (pronounced Joe May You), the Florence Nightingale of
Asia. Gen. Chow is the only woman general in the Chinese Nationalist
Army. She is a graduate of the Peiking Union Medical College School of
Nursing. She studied at M.I.T., received her M.A. from Columbia, has
been active in the Rural Health Activities, established the Army School of
Nursing in China, was the Woman of the Year in 1948, and this year was
appointed advisor to the World Health Organization Nursing Board.
Greetings were sent us from Mayor Kennelly, President Eisenhower,
Governor Martin of Illinois, President of the International Council of
Nurses, and the Canadian Nurses Association. Delegates from each section
and three delegates at large from each state made a total of 1138 delegates.
Maryland had a total of 22 delegates.
The Board of Directors of the ANA voted to request the House of
Delegates to authorize the ANA to study and develop a foundation or
trust fund which can accept tax free gifts to be used for socially acceptable
projects in line with ANA policies. The House of Delegates gave its
unanimous approval.
Malcolm Knowles, administrative coordinator of the "Adult Leadership"
magazine, discussed how to analyze contacts and attract potential members
and how to organize and conduct a membership campaign. Many ideas
and plans were given by members from the various states.
There were 160 exhibits open at Exhibition Hall at the Conrad Hilton
where everyone could see the latest in medical equipment, books, uniforms,
etc. A good supply of samples was available.
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Professional Counseling and Placement Service is a nationwide service
to nurses and employees of nurses. For you, the registered nurse, it keeps
a permanent confidential record immediately available of your education
and experience, preserving valuable reference material. No charge is made
for this service, and the House of Delegates voted to continue on a no-charge
basis.
The activities of the ANA are very broad in scope. The ANA asked for
improved social security laws.
The platform adopted for the coming term includes:
1. Participation in the provision of health protection for the American
people.
2. Aiding nurses to become more effective and secure members of their
profession.
3. Promotion of better health care for the peoples of the world.
A new scholarship fund has been set up for nurses in nursing education
managed by the Board of Directors of the Isabel Hampton Robb Memorial
Fund, Inc.
The code of nurses adopted in 1950 in regard to the appearance of
nurses on television was outlined by Sister Berenice Beck. The ANA
is campaigning to enforce the code. The individual nurse who violates
her own code is, of course, a clear demonstration of what one unethical
person can do to break down what thousands are working to accomplish.
Violations of this code by nurses themselves may in time become impossible
for an informed society will not tolerate them.
The House of Delegates voted with the Board of Directors that for the
present it would continue its stand that it cannot endorse the Equal Rights
Amendment because of its threats to the continuance of the existing
protective laws for women.
The CARE Book Program presented by Miss Flazel Barnes, ANA ad-
visor, was started to meet needs of nursing schools abroad. Seven hundred
and fifteen dollars were contributed at one meeting for the fund. The
University of Maryland Nurses Alumnae contributed $15 to this fund.
A resolution presented by Miss Shirley Titus of California called for
more active leadership in the development of an economic security program.
The ANA By-laws were amended and the pronoun she deleted to include
the men. Also under by-laws: nine standing committees are now provided
to combine the work formerly carried by 22 standing committees; a 99
per cent affirmative vote will now pass amendments at any biennial con-
vention, previously it took a unanimous vote which gave one dissenter the
power of veto.
Non-professional help offers a challenge to the nurse. The problem is
very acute in psychiatric hospitals where 52% of all hospitalized patients
42 BULLETIN OF THE NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
are being cared for by only 5% of all actively employed registered nurses.
Eighty-eight-eighty-nine per cent of the total nursing personnel caring for
the mentally ill in hospitals is non-professional.
Membership in the ANA increased from 115,364 to 121,017 this year.
A resolution was passed calling for support of Rep. Bolton's bill to insure
opportunities of men nurses to serve effectively in meeting national nursing
needs.
It is our hope to further intergroup relationship. Only one state, Georgia,
does not allow its Negro nurses to be admitted for membership in their
State Nurses Association.
The 1138 delegates heard reports of all the committees including the
Armed Forces. The Army Nurse Corps has been reduced from 57,000
in 1944 to 4,300 in 1954.
The American journal of Nursing has the largest subscription of any
magazine except those who get publications with paid dues. The Conven-
tion Journal, the daily newspaper of the convention, was edited each day
by the AJN Company.
In addition to the House of Delegates meetings, each section held their
own closed meetings. In each section members present were:
1. Educational Administrators, Consultants, and Teachers, 1,539.
2. General Duty, 1,039.
3. Industrial, 219.
4. Institutional Nursing Service Administrators, about 1,000.
5. Private Duty, 500.
6. Public Health, 885.
7. Special Groups, 426.
The officers elected for the coming two years are:
President — Agnes Ohlson, Conn.
1st Vice President — Lillian Patterson, Wash., D. C. (deceased Sept., '54)
2nd Vice President — Mabel Montgomery, Va.
3rd Vice President — Mathilda Scheuer, Pa.
Secretary — Frances Powell, 111.
Treasurer — Annabelle Peterson, D. C.
Directors:
1. Herbert Butler, Mass.
2. Elizabeth Porter, Ohio.
3. Shirley Titus, Calif.
4. Pearl Mclver, D. C.
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Nominating Committee
1. Louise Alcott, Ariz.
2. Irene Murcheson, Calif.
3. Cynthia Warren, Ky.
4. Florence Clarke, Kans.
This was my first trip to a biennial convention but is one that will be
long remembered. It was a real inspiration to meet and talk with other
nurses from all over the country. I am endeavoring to use what I learned
at this convention to help me in my present position as Chairman of the
Private Duty Section of the Maryland State Nurses Association. I thank
the alumnae from the bottom of my heart for helping to make my attend-
ance at the convention possible.
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"THE GIRL WITH THE LAMP"
In the spring of 1952 the Nurse Recruitment Committee of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Baltimore City Medical Society met and Mrs. Edwin
Stewart, the chairman, presented the idea of producing a motion picture
film on nursing using the hospitals of Maryland and their staffs as a means
of nurse recruitment.
After contacting the Maryland Society for Medical Research, Inc., the
Maryland State Nurses Association and directors of the hospitals in Balti-
more, preliminary meetings were held and plans formulated. Mr. Carroll
Hill, director of Union Memorial Hospital, was elected to head the financial
committee. Through his capable guidance the necessary money for this
production was obtained and filming was begun. Dr. D. C. Smith, of the
Maryland Society for Medical Research, wrote the script that was used,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Singleton, of the University of Maryland School of
Nursing, was selected to be the "voice" on the film. By the end of
summer, 1953, the filming was completed and the coordinating of voice,
script and pictures was completed. In December, 1953, the premier showing
of "The Girl With the Lamp" was held at the Medical and Chirurgical
Building, 1211 Cathedral Street. Vocational guidance counsellors from the
city schools, directors of hospitals, members of the Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty, the Board of Directors of the Maryland Society for Medical
Research, and representatives of the Maryland State Nurses Association
were guests of the Woman's Auxiliary at this time. The film was very
well received and has been in constant demand, not only here in Maryland,
but also in many other states as well. It has been purchased by the
Woman's Auxiliary to the American Medical Association and has been
added to their film library in Chicago.
The film is a 16-mm. color film with sound and runs for twenty minutes.
It is available without charge, as a public service of the Auxiliary, for
showing in junior and senior high schools, before parent and teachers'
groups, civic, women's or church groups, and to religious and community
young people's associations. The film shows not only what a student
nurse will actually study, but how she will live and some of the lighter
moments of student life. It can be obtained for showing from the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Baltimore City Medical Society, Committee on Motion
Pictures, 1211 Cathedral Street, Baltimore 1, Maryland.
The Woman's Auxiliary to the Baltimore City Medical Society has been
proud to have been able to produce this film, but none of it would have
been possible without the splendid cooperation of the Maryland Society
for Medical Research, the technical advice of the Maryland State Nurses
Association and the aid of the teaching hospitals of Maryland.
Margaret Wilson Webster, Class of 1939
(Mrs. Thomas C. Webster)
(President of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Baltimore City Medical Society, 1953-1954)
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REPORT OF SECTION 37 OF THE BALTIMORE BRANCH OF THE
NEEDLEWORK GUILD OF AMERICA
(This section was formed in 1939 by the Nurses Alumnae Association
and the Woman's Auxiliary Board of the University Hospital.)
Mrs. Sarah H. Hampshire, President
Mrs. Francis H. Dickey,
Representative from the Woman's Auxiliary Board
Number of garments from the Woman's Auxiliary Board 118
Number of garments from the Nurses' Alumnae Association .... 237
Total Number 355
Cash from the Woman's Auxiliary Board $ 4.00
Cash from the Nurses Alumnae Association 11.00
Total Amount $15.00
Directors of the Nurses' Section: Mrs. C. Frank Almony, Miss Anna
Pratt, Miss Carol Hosfeld, Mrs. Shirley L. Milke, Mrs. Edna Rembold,
Miss Mary Saulsbury, Miss Emma Winship, Mrs. Mary C. Shaffer, Mrs.
Gertrude Etzler and Mrs. Bessie M. Arnurius.
HISTORY OF THE NURSES' ALUMNAE PIN
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
When the Alumnae Association was organized in 1903, they accepted
the pin of the Class of 1894 as their emblem. The pin was an original
design submitted by Tiffany in New York, Bailey, Banks and Biddle of
Philadelphia. It showed a serpent (representing wisdom) twined around
the glass denoting "the wise presiding over decoctions of medicine." It is
the shape of a St. George's cross with maroon, black and gold colors of the
University of Maryland. The Caduceus, Greek emblem of medical science,
is in the center of the cross.
JANET HALE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
The Janet Hale Memorial Scholarship, which has been awarded in the
past by the Alumnae Association to the member of the graduating class
having the highest average in scholarship, has been discontinued, due to the
fact that so few of those awarded the scholarship took advantage of it. In-
stead, each year the Alumnae Association is making an award of $50 to the
student maintaining the highest average in scholarship, in addition to mak-
ing available $300 for scholarship purposes to those who wish to continue
their education.
Those interested in applying for use of this fund should apply to Miss
Virginia Conley, chairman of the Education Committee, Box 2, University
Hospital, Baltimore 1, Md. Recommendations for the granting of the funds
are made by the Education Committee to the Executive Committee which
in turn grants the scholarship.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - SCHOOL OF NURSING
THE LIBRARY
By Simone Hurst, Librarian
A year of steady progress has passed since the latest library report was
made in the Bulletin. During this year, books, journals, and pamphlets
were added to the collection, with a view to meeting the needs of all the
departments of the school. There are now 2981 volumes in the library
collection, of which 569 is recreational reading.
Statistics taken from the latest annual report are here given to show
in part the circulation of books.
Reserve book loans 1377
Reserve books (used in library) 1274
Weekly loans 3342
Recreational book loans 665
Total loans 6658
No statistics are kept on the use of books, journals, pamphlets, and like
material used in the reading room, and of which much use is made.
A gift of two book trucks to the library was made possible through a
legacy from Miss Nannie J. Lackland, an alumna of the Class of 1898. A
sterling silver name plate has been attached to each to commemorate
the gift.
Appreciation is here expressed for the many gifts of books and journals
received throughout the year.
VOLUNTEER PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM
With the approval of the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Huntington Wil-
liams, the Bureau of Public Health Nursing recently inaugurated a Vol-
unteer Program. Realizing the existing nurse shortage and in a sincere
effort to keep its nursing services on a high level, interested citizens are
being recruited and placed in clinic and school areas to assist the nurses
with their most important and diversified duties.
The program in addition to aiding the nurses will, it is hoped, produce
a group of informed lay people who will be able to understand and inter-
pret the city's health program.
Very fine cooperation is being given our organization by representatives
from the Volunteer Services of the American Red Cross, Baltimore Chapter,
as well as by many other interested and very efficient lay people.
Groups of interested mothers give valuable service in the public schools
by conducting the Massachusetts Vision Tests. Other types of surveys are
conducted by groups of parents whenever the need arises.
More volunteers are needed as nurses-aides, clinical assistants and clerks.
The program is under the chairmanship of Mrs. E. Elizabeth Hipp.
Mrs. Hipp was E. Elizabeth Roth, Class of 1929.
Any interested individuals or groups may call Mrs. Hipp at PL 2-2000,
Extension 405, for further information.
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WANTED!
During the past year the School of Nursing has been called on several
times to participate in community service activities relating to the history
of nursing at our alma mater. This has brought to our attention the need
for us to gather together objects of historical significance, and also pointed
out the need for space in which to keep these articles.
Dean Florence Gipe, whose keen interest in the history of nursing led
her to select it as the topic for her doctoral dissertation, expressed interest
in this project and offered to make available a room in the nurses' residence
to house these articles.
Perhaps you have articles that may be interesting additions to the collec-
tion such as pictures, diplomas, school rings or pins, early textbooks, awards
of merit, class banners, uniforms (our school has had several — such as the
blue and white stripe with long sleeves, the solid blue worn during World
War II, etc.), surgical instruments, programs from significant occasions, etc.
Items of this sort which our alumnae alone can supply will form the
nucleus of an "alumnae museum." We ask that you notify the University
of Maryland Nurses' Alumnae Association, Box 2, University Hospital,
Baltimore 1, Maryland, if you have an article for our collection.
Elizabeth R. Singleton, '47
Committee Chairman
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PRIVATE DUTY POLICY CHANGES
By Hortense Bunting Tegler
The Private Duty Nurses of the Maryland State Nurses Association voted
to increase their fees for all types of nursing effective November 9, 1953.
At the annual meeting of the private duty section of the Maryland State
Nurses Association, in November, 1952, on the advice of the Chairman
of the Economic Security Board, fees were reviewed and the question
discussed as to whether our fees were sufficient to maintain our economic
security. It was voted down at this time; but in June, 1953, it was voted
to increase their fees to $14 for eight-hour duty instead of the $12 we
were then receiving.
This was approved by the Board of Directors of the Maryland State
Nurses Association and the hospitals were notified the increase would go into
effect. However, the Hospital Conference refused to allow this to become
an actuality and decided to hold several meetings with the nurses to
present their side. Their argument was that they were unable to increase
the salaries of the staff nurses, janitors, porters, maids, laundry workers,
etc., and therefore it would be unfair for us to receive this increase. The
question was then left to the private duty section and they voted to have
the increase go into effect on November 9. The Board of Directors again
approved, but the Hospital Conference again refused.
It was only after many nurses threatened to be available at $14 only
that the hospitals decided it could go into effect on December 1, 1953.
Actually no one has the right to dictate what a private duty nurse shall
charge except the nurse herself since she is an independent contractor.
As of December 1, 1953, the private duty nurses of Baltimore were
all collecting the following fees:
1. $14 for 8-hour duty
2. $30 for 20-hour duty (in homes only)
3. $3.50 for 1st hour in hourly nursing; $1.75 per hour thereafter up to
four hours
4. No discrimination against any type of nursing.
Mr. Buck, director of the University Hospital, presented no obstacle to
our group after this decision and left the matter entirely up to our own
private duty nurses, who voted unanimously for the increase and a letter
was sent to him informing him of our wishes.
The private duty nurses employed at the University still collect their
own fees, and the plan continues to be satisfactory.
SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL PLATES
Plates of the School of Medicine, University of Maryland, the New
Hospital and the Old Hospital are available. These white plates are 10
inches in diameter with black print. The price is two dollars and fifty
cents, plus fifty cents for mailing and insurance. Send order stating the
plates desired, with checks, to Mrs. Bessie M. Arnurius, Box 2, University
Hospital, Baltimore 1, Md. Make check payable to Nurses' Alumnae
Association of the University of Maryland.
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PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE
By Eleanor Slacum, Director of Nursing Service, Psychiatric Unit
The calendar year of '54 finds the Institute in its second year of func-
tioning. The fourth unit was opened for In-Patient service in April of the
current year. The other three units including two for psychiatry and one
for psychosomatic medicine admitted patients in June, August and October
respectively in 1953. A treatment area for the administration of insulin
and electro-shock therapy has been in operation since 1953.
Two groups of students from the University of Maryland Nursing
School have completed the program in psychiatric nursing during the cur-
rent year. The program was under the direction of two clinical instructors
who are members of the faculty. Four members of the recent graduating
class have joined the nursing staff in the Institute and other applications
are pending. Nursing students have also received instruction and experience
in psychosomatic medicine under the leadership of the clinical instructor
in that area. In-service programs are made available to staff nurses and aides.
Clinical Areas include the Adult Outpatient department, Children's clinic
and the newly organized clinic for alcoholics.
The Nursing Staff at present includes 22 nurses and 34 aides.
The Occupational Therapy Department functions under the guidance
of a director and two assistants.
The departments of Psychology and Social Service have also been func-
tioning since the Institute opened.
The Psychiatric Institute Bulletin Vol. No. 1 states the three primary
goals as clinical, teaching and research. Under research is listed the several
groups and various kinds of research in which they are engaged. Sup-
ported by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, an investigation
is being directed in the psychological and sociological factors in the treat-
ment and rehabilitation of poliomyelitis patients and their families.
Another investigation included study of patterns of psycho-social response
in civilian community disasters. This study was supported by the Army
Chemical Corps.
Another study involved human myographic response to loud sound. Work
is being continued in the same field to study further aspects of autonomic
activity on psychological functioning in man.
The Psychology Department is engaged in a study of projective methods
in clinical psychology.
A study is being made to evaluate the effectiveness of an in-service train-
ing program in mental health.
A research group is carrying out a series of studies on the relationships
of neuronal metabolism and functional activity. A project in medical edu-
cation is being conducted by the clinical director and professor of psychiatry.
A research group in the department of psychology has been developing
categories for the study of content analysis.
The Psychiatric Institute Bulletin is issued by the Committee on Public
Relations which is composed of representatives of the various departments
in the Institute.
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PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS
Miss Martha Bush Michael, Class 1893, is living with her sister, Mrs.
W. D. Williamson, in Roanoke, Va., since Miss Michael had a slight
stroke in June, 1952. Mrs. Williamson writes "she is weak, but not helpless."
Miss Lillian K. McDaniel, Class 1915, retired from the I. V. N. A. on
September 1, 1953, after 31 years of service. Miss McDaniel is doing staff
nursing six days a month at the University Hospital. She talks of her work
with enthusiasm and finds the hospital environment much improved since
her student days.
We received a letter from Mrs. John W. Caldwell, Class 1916, in which
she said, "I am sorry you have not had this before, but as you see, I am not
at home anymore in the winter. I have been at this above college for two
years now and my mail runs all around before it gets to me.
"One of our graduates lives about twelve miles from here. I looked her
up, but she wasn't home. Her name is Miss Arye. Her sister was there,
so I had a nice visit with her. She, too, is a nurse.
"One of my classmates, Mrs. Noell, Polly Clark, lives at Greensboro, just
fifty-nine miles away. I have had several nice weekends with her.
"Forgive me for being so late. I wish I could come up in June for com-
mencement, but it is impossible. We do not leave here until June the first."
Mrs. Caldwell was Maude Simmons.
Mrs. Herbert Zimmerman, 'nee Cecelia Moore, Class 1918, writes, "I
don't have any exciting news about myself. I am still married to the same
guy, and we are both well and happy. My son is twenty-three years old,
and will graduate the first of June from St. Louis University Medical
School. So we are real proud of him. Give my best love to all of the girls."
Ruth Clements, Class 1920, resigned as Director of Nurses at the Fred-
erick City Hospital, Frederick, Maryland, September 1st, 1954, and
accepted a position in charge of the Health Program, and is teaching Psy-
chology and Sociology at Ferrum Junior College, Ferrum, Va.
Miss Velma Kish, Class 1923, had to resign as Educational Director of
the Los Angeles Hospital on account of ill health. After five months of
rest she has accepted a position with the Children's Hospital in Los
Angeles, as Assistant Director of Nurses.
After many years we were able to get the correct address of Mrs. W.
Thomas Hadden; residence: 19 Waterloo Road, Half-Way Tree, Jamaica,
B. W. I. Mrs. Hadden writes, "I have two children: a girl, Shelia Barbara,
age sixteen years, in school in Glasgow, Scotland, and a boy, William
Dennis, age eleven, in school in Kingston, Jamaica." Mrs. Hadden was
married in 1937; she did private duty nursing before her marriage. She
graduated in 1929.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Bankert and their son moved into their new
home, 410 Garland Road, Northwood, Wilmington, Delaware, in October,
1953. Mrs. Bankert was Eva Laigneil, Class 1930.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Eaton, of Akron, Ohio, visited the hospital the
first of March. Mrs. Eaton was appointed Director of Nurses at the
Children's Hospital, in Akron, Ohio, in 1953. Mrs. Eaton was Gladys
Adkins, Class 1930.
Mrs. Louis G. Penn, sister of Mrs. Daniel Cruz, writes us that her sister,
who is living in Anchorage, Alaska, says spring is just around the corner.
Mrs. Penn says her sister seems most happy with her family and home,
and enjoys their cabin at the lake, plus fishing, boating and swimming in
the summer. The whole family goes in for boating, and even the older
girl, Barbara Ann, who is only seven years old, can handle a boat on the
lake. Mrs. Cruz was Mildred Cramer, Class 1937.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Davis, and three children, live in Clarksburg, Md.
Mrs. Davis was Alice Garrison, Class 1938.
On the occasion of her fifteenth anniversary, Virginia Richardson Nuttall,
Class 1939, wrote a most interesting travelogue of the life of her family in
England, where Lt. Col. Nuttall is currently stationed. She wrote of trips
to St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, London Bridge, Windsor
Castle, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and many other places of world
fame. It was Mrs. Nuttall's deep regret that she was unable to join her
classmates on the occasion of their fifteenth reunion, but she hopes to be
back in the States in time to enjoy the next one.
Captain and Mrs. Donald W. Kimlin have two children, Jean, age seven,
and Donald W., Jr., age six. Captain Kimlin is stationed at Fort Bragg,
N. C. Mrs. Kimlin was Nellie Ferrell Gardner, Class 1940. Mrs. Nellie
Ferrell Gardner, Class 1905, is the mother of Mrs. Kimlin, and is living
in the William's Home on Longhorne Road, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Ballo and their ten-year-old son, Stevie, visited the
hospital in August. It has been twelve years since their last visit; they
reside in Monterey, California. Mrs. Ballo was Ethel B. Smithson, Class
1940. Mrs. Ballo has been employed in a surgeon's office for the past two
years.
Mrs. Edwin J. Austin is president of the Mothers' Club of J. H. S. No.
73, in Maspeth, Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Austin says this organization is
comparable to a P.-T. A. Mrs. Austin was Ruth Misener, Class 1943.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Price and their children, Sara Jane, age six,
and James Edward, age four, are living in West Chester, Pa. They are
expecting their third child in July. Mrs. Price was Frances Danby Williams,
Class 1943.
Captain and Mrs. George R. Hurd are stationed in Germany. Mrs.
Hurd was Clara Gertrude Lebeck, Class 1943.
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Eleanor L. Gordner, Class 1943, has been promoted from lieutenant to
captain in the A. N. C. She is stationed at Brooke Army Hospital, Fort
Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, and is instructor in Advanced Medicine
Technicians School.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marshall are living in Arlington, Va. Mrs. Marshall
was Frances Anita Jones, Class 1943.
Ernestine Johnson Moore, Class 1944, has moved to Virginia Beach,
Virginia. Commander Moore has been assigned to the U.S.S. Albany there.
Ann Love, Class 1944, who recently became Mrs. Dawson Murphy, has
moved to 204 High Street, Cambridge, Maryland.
Doris M. Kessler, A. N. C, Class 1944, writes, "This tour of duty in
Alaska has been quite an experience." The Nurses' Quarters were com-
pletely destroyed by fire in February, and everything was burned.
Mrs. John A. Smith writes, "I am the evening supervisor at St. Vincent's
Hospital, and enjoy it very much." St. Vincent's is a private Psychiatric
Hospital with two hundred and fifty beds. A large building program is
underway for a new acute hospital. This is the first time in its 128 years
of existence that the Daughters of Charity have ever asked for help, and
the response has been overwhelming. Mrs. Smith was Eloise Kindig,
Class 1944.
Mrs. James G. Disharoon, nee Dorothy Jean Nelson, Class 1944, has a
position with The District Public Health Nursing Department in Wash-
ington, D. C.
Mrs. Marjorie McCann Brown, Class 1944, writes: "I am still in the
service, teaching in a practical nurse school, staffed by the army for army
persons, either men or women. The school is accredited by the state and
nationally, and it seems to be part of the answer of how to take care
of the shortage of trained persons in the army hospitals. Surprisingly
enough, the course is of more interest to the soldiers than to the WAC.
The school is forty-eight weeks long, and the graduates take their state
boards before they leave for a new station. It has been very interesting to
do this type of teaching."
Mrs. Charles G. Morgan, the children, and her father, Dr. John F. Lutz,
joined her husband, Sergeant Morgan, in Japan in September, 1954. Mrs.
Morgan was Anne Caroline Lutz, Class 1946. The whole family likes it
very much in Japan. This is their address: Mrs. Charles G. Morgan, c/o
M/Sgt. Charles G. Morgan, A.F. 19336233, 6160 M.T.N. Squadron, A.P.O.
244, c/o P.M., San Francisco, Calif.
In a little note Mrs. Paul L. Heininger says, "I am sorry I can't be with
you at the banquet, but my husband (Dr. Paul L. Heininger) has to go in
the Navy on May 17. I hope that you have a splendid time. My thoughts
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will be with you, and I send my best wishes to each and every one of you."
Mrs. Heininger was Mary C. Green, Class 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Zimmerman and two children, Lynn Robert
and Dale Regis, age two and three years old, are living in Kensington,
Md. Mrs. Zimmerman was Amber Arnold, Class 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Melvin and three children, Roy, III, five years old,
Debby Ann, three years, and Blair Kent, twenty-one months, have moved
into their new home on Resse Road, Westminster, Md. Mrs. Melvin
writes, "We are thoroughly enjoying the many riches the rural life has
to offer, and trust that our friends will find an opportunity to share it
with us." Mrs. Melvin was Rita Kent, Class 1946.
Mrs. Jack C. Smith writes, "I enjoyed the Bulletin very much." And
she also adds, "We have two lovely little daughters, Stephanie, born Septem-
ber 3, 1949, in the Canal Zone, and Sherrie, born January 2, 1951, in San
Diego, Cal. " Mrs. Smith was Judy Garland, Class 1946.
Mrs. William Sites Kiser, Jean Crow, Class 1947, the former "Miss
Maryland," left Baltimore on October 18 to join her husband, 1st Lt. Kiser,
at the following address: c/o 1st Lt. William Sites Kiser, A. O. 2261657,
Headquarters, 7221 S. T. Support Squadron, A.P.O. 118, Box 18, c/o
Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Spaulding, Jr., and small daughter, Martha
Lucinda, visited the hospital in March. Mrs. Spaulding was Doris Swartz,
Class 1947.
Captain and Mrs. Frank Baker, Jr., are stationed at Elmendorf Air Force
Base. Mrs. Baker writes, "This is located just outside of Anchorage,
Alaska, and we are finding life up here real interesting, sorry we won't
make the banquet this year." Mrs. Baker was La Rue Kenney, Class 1947.
Dr. and Mrs. Jerome E. Cohn paid a short visit to the hospital the middle
of March. Their young son was visiting his grandparents in Myersville,
Md., while his parents spent the night in Baltimore. Mrs. Cohn was
Jean Waters, Class 1948.
Mrs. Louis Klag, nee Joan Cowles, Class 1948, has been working general
duty in the Chula Vista Hospital, in Chula Vista, California, while her
husband has been in the service.
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Goeckler and their two small daughters are living
in Seattle, Washington. They returned from a tour of duty in Germany last
June, 1953. Dr. Goeckler is Resident in Orthopedic Surgery at University
of Washington. Mrs. Goeckler was Harriet Smith, Class 1947.
Dr. and Mrs. Marion Insley have moved to Danville, Pa., where Dr.
Insley is taking a residency in Ear, Nose and Throat. Mrs. Insley was
Doris Shipley, Class 1949.
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Lt. Joan E. Bower, (N. C.) USN, Class 1949, writes us, "I have recently
returned from spending eighteen months in Japan, and it really feels good
to be back in the U. S. A. " Lt. Bower is stationed at the U. S. Marine
Hospital, Quantico, Va.
Ruby Mellor Beitler, Class 1949, is doing general duty at Prince George
County Hospital. Her husband, S/Sgt. Zane Beitler, is stationed at Andrews
Air Force Base in Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Miller, formerly of Greenbelt, Md., are residing
at 3915 Dolfield Ave., Baltimore. The Millers have two sons, Garry E.,
two years old, and Jay A., who is several months old. Mrs. Miller was
Jacqueline Loar, Class 1950.
Betty Lou Watts, Class 1950, writes, "I have been working with the
government at the Gorgas Hospital on the Pacific side of the Canal since
1951, mainly in Pediatrics and Obstetrics. The hospital is quite beautiful,
surrounded by coconut and palm trees, and overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
I love it."
Mr. and Mrs. James Tether and daughter, Dacyl Lain, who will be three
years old in April, 1955, are living in College Park, Md. Mrs. Tether was
Beverly Hoxie, Class 1951.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Manley moved into their new home at 3813
Nancy Ave., Wilmington 8, Delaware, on February 1, 1954. Mrs. Manley
was Mildred Morne, Class 1949.
Miss Dorothy Bartz, Class 1950, is working as an assistant head nurse
at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital.
Mrs. Dorothy Calif iore, Class 1951, writes, "I left Baltimore September
9 to an assignment at the U. S. Public Health Service Field Station in
Kansas City, Mo., in the Communicable Disease Unit. I accepted an
appointment as a Commissioned Officer in the Service following my grad-
uation from the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, this past
June. My work here is as a Public Health Nurse in the epidemic control
and investigation and research."
Mrs. Robert D. Purcell, Class 1952, writes us that she and her husband,
Lt. Purcell, moved to government quarters at the Marine Barracks in
Hingham, Massachusetts, in February 1954. They expect to be stationed
there for a year or more. Mrs. Purcell was Ann Jackson.
Miss Ivery Reiter, Class 1952, has a position in Dr. Erwin R. Jennings
office in Brunswick, Georgia. She says she loves the Southern hospitality.
Miss Louise Ada Baugher, Class 1952, is doing general duty at the
York Hospital, York, Pa.
Dr. and Mrs. George E. Garrington, who were married on March 28,
1953, have been living in New Orleans for the past year and have recently
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moved to San Francisco, California. Dr. Garrington is a dentist with the
United States Public Health Service. Mrs. Garrington was Doris Price,
Class 1952.
Mary Huddleson, Class 1952, is an Ensign in the U.S.N.R., and is sta-
tioned with the U. S. Naval Hospital, Oceanside, California.
Jean Elmore, Class 1953, has been a staff nurse at the Medical College
of Virginia. She tells us that she has enjoyed working there, and that she
is very eager to begin studying for her degree at the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Miss A. Carol Grimes, Class 1953, has a position on the staff at the
Springfield State Hospital, Sykesville, Md.
Mrs. Carl R. Thayer, Class 1953, nee Helena Ramsburg, is on duty in the
delivery room in the Blaunt Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tenn. Mrs.
Thayer says Maryville is located at the foot of the great Smoky Mountains,
and invites anyone passing that way to stop and visit her.
To many graduates, the name of Bessie Masten Arnurius, Class of 1920,
and the Alumnae Association are synonymous. Each year many letters go
out to our members from Mrs. Arnurius. This extra time and interest does
not go unnoticed by the graduates, and many of them take a few moments
to answer these letters. In order that all of us may have the opportunity to
enjoy these notes, parts of them have been incorporated in the Bulletin.
We hope that others of you will forward to the Bulletin news concerning
yourself and your classmates.
Geraldine Kilby White (Mrs. John P. White, III) — Class of 1952
3606 The Alameda, Baltimore 18, Maryland
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
Your card has just recently been forwarded to me and I would like very
much to have the 1953 Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin. . . . My husband and I
returned to the United States in November after a year spent at the U. S.
Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. We are at present living in West
Hyattsville, while Jack takes six months of surgical pathology at Garfield
Memorial Hospital in Washington. Next year we plan to be back in
Baltimore again.
I am very interested in the activities of the Nurses' Alumnae Association,
and am looking forward to receiving the Bulletin.
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Mary R. Gsegner (nee Mary Rudisill) — Class of 1937
505 Hazelwood Drive, Marietta, Georgia
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
Thanks for the reminder of the Bulletin as I do enjoy seeing what's hap-
pening to all the folks. . . . My news is the usual. We have a new daughter,
Mary Bertie Gsegner, born January 27, 1954. We are very proud of our
family, two boys, Ford and Robert; now two girls, Susan and Mary. They
are a handful so I haven't worked at nursing tor the past three years. The
hospital here is new and is well equipped. It serves the Lockheed plant here
and any emergency cases from Dobbins Air Base. I get lots of calls to do
either private duty or hospital work. Someday I'm gonna get me a cap
and go back. Atlanta, which is near, also has some nice hospitals that I
have visited.
Someday we are coming up Maryland-way again to see everyone. . . . My
two oldest, Ford and Susan, are planning to visit their grandmother in Bal-
timore this summer, and I want them to go through the hospital. I imagine
there are a lot of changes. . . . Please give my regards to all.
Lucy Prettyman (nee Lucy Hill) — Class of 1914
5306 Woodlawn Avenue, Chevy Chase 15, Maryland
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
I am just a housewife interested in flower arranging, gardening, church,
bowling, bridge, reading, and the Florence Crittenton Home so my life is
very uneventful compared to the nurses' lives.
About twelve of our class had lunch with Dr. and Mrs. William Billings-
lea in Glen Burnie, Maryland; she was Miss Zepp of 1914. It was lots of
fun renewing old friendships.
Anne Winterringer (nee Anne Tucker) — Class of 1945
1424 4th Avenue, S.W., Rochester, Minnesota
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
My husband finishes his fellowship in Urology here at the Mayo Clinic
in July, 1954, this finishing over four years here. We, as yet, don't know
where he will practice. We hope somewhere in the South. I have two
children, Susan Leigh, age two, and Ruth Anne, age eight months.
(Helen White, Class of 1945) Mrs. Charles Murray has twins, born in
February, 1953 — Betty and Brandt. She also has a boy, Fred, age five.
("Polly" Ann Penelope Tucker, Class of 1942) Mrs. William Woodson
is married to an orthopedic surgeon and now lives in Twin Falls, Idaho,
where he is practicing.
I see Marge Stoner (Mrs. Jim Hunter) quite often as she lives here. Jim
is on the staff in Ob.-Gyn. They have three children, two girls and a boy.
I hope we will be able to come by the hospital sometime this summer and
see all our friends. Give them our regards.
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Beulah O. Stamps (nee Beulah O. Hall) — Class of 1909
Inglewood, California
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
Kittie Duker was out to see her daughter last fall. I had a nice conversa-
tion over the phone but did not get to see her as my husband was so very
ill. He was operated on Christmas of 1953 for prostate enlargement, not
malignant, but it takes a long time for a man to build up at eighty-one
years old. He is improving now slowly. As for myself, I am very tired nurs-
ing two years without a day off, but he will not allow a nurse or his
daughters to do one thing. He wants Beulah to do it. But I have wonderful
health for my age. I am seventy-two years old.
Do wish someone would write me something of my classmates. How is
Miss Getzendama? I graduated May 5, 1909, and have nursed a great deal
of that time. But, of course, I am retired now. Am looking forward to
receiving the Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin.
Frances D'Autriel (nee Frances Lister) — Class of 1944
8580 Cuefor Crescent, Norfolk, Virginia
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
Enclosed please find one dollar for the 1953 Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin.
I haven't received one in about four years and am anxious to have news of
University Hospital and old friends.
My husband, Cdr. Joseph E. D'Autriel, has just completed four years'
tour of duty with the Navy and we are once again civilians with a perma-
nent address. . . . We have two sons, Michel, age seven, and Peter, age
three. As soon as my youngest begins school I hope to become active in
the nursing field again, for I have missed it very much.
Jean Mallis (nee Jean Nilsson) — Class of 1947
c/o Capt. Nicholas Mallis, 34th Gen. Hosp., APO 58, c/o PM New York
Dear Mrs. Horine:
Once again we have moved — this time to Orleans, France. We are all
well and happy though the living standard here is very low. Nick is Chief
of Urology at the 34th General Hospital and expects to be stationed here
until July, 1956. My little boy, Nickie, age three, and I flew over in No-
vember. It was none too soon as our new baby, Steven Michael Mallis, was
born December 15. He weighed three pounds and was over two months'
premature, but has gotten along beautifully. He is over six pounds now and
healthy as all get-out.
We miss University Hospital and all our friends so very much. It will be
wonderful to get the bulletin.
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U. S. Naval Hospital
Quantico, Va.
Dear Alumnae:
They say join the Navy and see the world. Well, I think that has hap-
pened to me since I joined the Navy four years ago. I have not been all
over the world but I still feel as if I have seen a good bit of it.
Just two months ago I returned to the States after having an eighteen-
month tour of duty in the U. S. Naval Hospital at Yokosuka, Japan. It was
in October 1952 that I left the States aboard the MSTS General Sultan
and headed for the Far East. It took us thirteen days to reach Yokohama,
Japan, making a non-stop voyage. That was my first time aboard ship so
it in itself was an experience.
I found the Orient a very fascinating place with its customs and lan-
guage. The Japanese people were very friendly. Although at first I found
it very difficult to speak to them, because of the language barrier. Many of
the Japanese do, though, speak fluent English due to the constant increase
of Americans in Japan.
Their homes are quite different from the Americans. They heat their
homes with "habachie" pots instead of furnaces. They have all sliding
doors and when entering one must first remove your shoes and put on
slippers which are provided for you. Their floors are covered with heavy
straw mats and they have no chairs or beds. When eating you sit at a small,
short legged table. Chopsticks are used in place of knives and forks. I had
quite a few opportunities to eat with chopsticks and after you acquire the
art of handling them it is a lot of fun. They also do all their cooking over
habachie pots. Like sitting they also sleep on the floor on cushioned mats.
As for duty at the Naval Hospital it was very much like the States only
a lot busier. When I first arrived there we were constantly getting in
casualties from the hospital ships and from air evacs. It was very sad to
see these boys being brought in minus arms and legs and in other serious
and critical conditions. At times it was necessary to work long hours, but
it was well worth it because we felt as if we were needed and that we were
doing something worthwhile. The hospital was well staffed with doctors,
nurses and corpsmen. I met quite a few people I had known back in the
States including one doctor who was a resident at University Hospital
when I was a student. It is very strange how you can be so far away from
home and yet meet so many you know.
I got to see a lot of Japan while there. Went to Tokyo frequently since it
was only about 45 miles from the Naval Base. There we would take in
shows and do our shopping. Last year I took leave with some of the other
nurses and went down to Kyoto which is the old capital of Japan. This is
located on the other side of the island. We also visited Niko which is
famous for its shrines and temples. No matter where you go in Japan there
is always something to see.
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One month before returning to the States I had the opportunity to fly
down to Hong Kong, China, stopping at Okinawa and Formosa. This was
one wonderful trip and something I am glad I didn't miss while in the Far
East. We got to tour the Island going within one-quarter of a mile from
the Communist border. Also found Hong Kong a wonderful shopping city.
It was really a wonderful worthwhile trip.
When I left Japan in April it had changed quite a bit from when I first
arrived there. The hospital is not near as busy and the staff has had almost
a complete turnover.
My return to the States was by Military Air Transport. We flew from
Tokyo to San Francisco, stopping for one wonderful 24 hours in Hawaii.
Now that I am here at Quantico, Va., my tour of duty in the Far East
seems almost like a dream. As I said before, it was wonderful, very interest-
ing and a good experience.
If anybody ever has the opportunity to visit the Orient don't hesitate to
go. You'll love it.
Sincerely,
Joan E. Bower
LTJG (NC) USN
Class Oct. '49
Eleanor Harrison — Class of 1949
246 East Alexandria, Detroit 1, Michigan
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
It is always a pleasure for me to receive the Bulletin due to the fact that
I'm away from Baltimore and don't hear too much of the news of most of
the other girls. It's a wonderful way to keep in touch with them even
though it isn't personally.
At the present time I'm employed as an industrial nurse for Chevrolet
in the Forge Division here in Detroit. The work is very interesting and
quite a challenge, sometimes, I might add. One very nice thing concerning
the salary is the fact that we receive the same benefits as the other plant
employees in regard to overtime pay. For all hours over forty per week
we receive time and one-half and for all Sunday work we receive double
time. Wouldn't it be nice if all nurses could receive this for their overtime!
Our staff in the "hospitals" here in the plant consists of a full-time
doctor, eleven first-aid men, and ten nurses. As each of the first-aid men
leave or retire they are replaced with nurses. Gradually we will be staffed
by all nurses.
I'm looking forward to the banquet and dance very much this year and
have arranged to take my vacation at that time so I can be there.
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Nellie Carter — Class of 1906
203 Colonial Court, Lynchburg, Virginia
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
Of course I don't want to miss the 1953 Nurses' Alumnae Bulletin. . . .
Miss Flanagan was my superintendent for two years. She was A-Number-
One, and I shall ever remain grateful for her fine discipline. Due to im-
paired health I have been unable to engage in the practice of nursing for
many years. I have recently been in the hospital for an operation, number
six, for active thyroid. I am seventy-four years young. I do wish I had some
news of others in my class to give you.
Evelyn E. Fowler (nee Evelyn Eselhorst) — Class of 1943
125 Main Street, Spencer, Massachusetts
Dear Mrs. Horine:
Every year when this book arrives I can't help but think back to my
student days. I could have worked just a little more and played a little less,
but even so, the years between 1940 and 1943 were wonderful ones. I have
never regretted relinquishing my career after my husband returned from
overseas (he is a graduate of Medicine, 1943) for motherhood and the wife
of a busy general practitioner. Spencer, Massachusetts, has been good to us
in every way and we are all truly happy; a state of mind which is too
seldom achieved these days. I have a son, Richard L., Jr., who is seven and
a slightly older edition of Dennis the Menace and a daughter, Robin L.,
four-and-a-half, who is the female counterpart of Dennis. ... I must thank
Dr. Horine for teaching me something which I had reason to doubt in
1940 to 1943 — that most doctors are really human. The very first time I
scrubbed in the Operating Room was for an appendectomy which he per-
formed and I've never since forgotten his patience with me then and other
times later.
Helen M. Goody
Quantico, Maryland
Dear Blanche:
At long last I've been out to Deerhead Hospital to see Mrs. Emma Stow,
Class of 1894. Wish you could have seen her face when I told her I was a
Maryland University graduate also. She held my hand tight the whole time
and begged me to come again. I think she's very lonely for family and
friends — someone to visit her. Just another case of out-living one's family
and friends. From what I gathered she has no family. . . .
Maybe I told you that our club was asked for volunteers to go to Deer-
head to read to some of the patients, help others in some sewing or some
kind of handwork. But of course to do that you have to have a car and
drive, and for that reason I can't do any of it. . . .
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Mrs. Jesse S. Staton (nee Gertrude Marie Davis) — Class of 1945
Moreheacl City, North Carolina
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
I'm afraid I have no news to add. My husband is Director of Religious
Education at the First Methodist Church in this city. He will enter The-
ology School at Duke University in September.
I am a housewife and mother and can find no time to nurse. We have
one boy and two girls — Cloman is six years, Carolyn two years, and Rebecca
four months.
LaRue Keeney Baker (nee LaRue Keeney) — Class of 1947
c/o Capt. Frank Baker (AO 2240719), 500 5th AF Hospital
APO 942-1, c/o PM Seattle, Washington
Dear Mrs. Arnurius:
We are now stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base where my husband
is a doctor attached to the Air Force. We are located just outside of Anchor-
age, Alaska, and we find life here very interesting. Our best to all of you.
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MARRIAGES
Mrs. Henry Hoenes, nee Grace Elgin, Class of 1921, to Mr. Edgar Hart-
ley, on April 15, 1954.
Bernice Elizabeth Brittain, Class of 1930, to Mr. Samuel Sprigg Reeves,
Jr., on May 26, 1954.
Dorothy Jean Nelson, Class 1944, to Mr. James Gregory Disharoon, on
November 7, 1953.
Ann Love, Class 1944, to Mr. Dawson Murphy.
Mary Delaney, Class 1947, to Mr. Thomas Strain, on January 9, 1954.
Eugenia M. Crow, Class of 1947, to Dr. William Sites Kiser, on May 1,
1954.
Laura Jane Kirkwood, Class 1950, to Mr. John Franklin Morone, on
May 1, 1954.
Mary Poupalos, Class 1950, to Mr. John Bures, on June 15, 1954.
Lila M. Johnson, Class 1950, to Mr. Harry E. Buckheister, Jr., on August
14, 1954.
Norma Marilyn Miller, Class 1951, to Mr. Malcolm Davis Voelcker, on
May 1, 1954.
Ellen Ann Peregoy, Class 1951, to Mr. Paul F. Blackadar, on February
6, 1954.
Dorcas Ann McLaughlin, Class 1952, to Pfc. Turner Wilson Edge, on
January 16, 1954.
Patricia Wheeler, Class 1952, to Mr. Charles B. Gluye, on July 25, 1953.
Faye L. Renninger, Class 1953, to Mr. Wayne Reber, Jr., on January 31,
1954.
Ivery Claire Reiter, Class 1952, to Dr. Milledge Glenn Smith, on June 17,
1954.
Esther Jeanne Watkins, Class 1953, to Dr. David Hales Patten, on May
22nd, 1954.
Dorothea A. Fenwick, Class 1953, to Mr. Monroe Eilers Fraleig;h, on
April 23, 1953.
Carolyn O'Neil Lewis, Class 1953, to Dr. Joseph B. Bronushas, on
October 16, 1954.
Charlotte Ariel Hager, Class 1953, to Mr. Richard Lee Morgan, on June
26, 1954.
Mary L. Muir, Class 1953, to Mr. Charles Dilzer, on June 12, 1954.
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Marie Doris Bowling, Class 1954, to Mr. Leonard N. Wiles, on September
12, 1954.
Pamela Stoddard Fleming, Class 1954, to Mr. Daniel Fulper Johnston,
on August 21, 1954.
Barbara Eileen Burchett, Class 1954, to Mr. Barry D. Murphy, on July
27, 1954.
Gloria Teagarden, Class 1954, to Mr. John Joseph McLearn, on Septem-
ber 4, 1954.
Nancy Jane Ricks, Class 1954, to Mr. John R. Rickes, on September 25,
1954.
Ella Startte Elbourne, Class 1954, to Mr. Homer Lawrence, on September
17, 1954.
Emily Webster Fitzgerald, Class 1954, to Mr. Clarence Edward Pusey,
Jr., in October, 1954.
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BIRTHS
To Mr. and Mrs. Tyron Power, a son, Thomas W., on August 28, 1953.
Mrs. Power was Helen Chelluck, Class 1935.
To Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Cockey, III, a son, William David, on
May 14, 1954. Mrs. Cockey was Sara Jane Mays, Class 1938.
To Major and Mrs. George W. Flager, a daughter, Nancy Elsie, born
in August, 1954, in Heidelberg, Germany. (This makes two daughters
and two sons in this family.) Mrs. Flager was Ingrid E. Selkamaa, Class
1938.
To Dr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Fisher, Jr., a daughter, Jane Scharf, on February
13, 1954; this is the fourth daughter. Mrs. Fisher was Nellie Scharf,
Class 1940.
To Dr. and Mrs. James Henry Shell, a daughter, Nancy Lee, on May
28, 1954. Mrs. Shell was Ruth Elizabeth Forsythe, Class 1943.
To Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Miller, a son, on September 25, 1954.
Mrs. Miller was Amy Lee De Shane, Class 1943.
To Mr. and Mrs. Grady Clarence Luffman, a son, Grady Clarence, Jr.,
on May 31, 1954. Mrs. Luffman was Mary Jane Pennewell, Class 1945.
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Johnson, a daughter, Mary Louise, on
January 25, 1954. Mrs. Johnson was Carolyn Jean Ward, Class 1945.
To Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sharp, a daughter, Diane Kay, on November 29,
1953. Mrs. Sharp was Clara H. Frasco, Class 1945.
To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Behlke, a son, William W., on January 7,
1954. Mrs. Behlke was Ellen Louise Collison, Class 1945.
To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Polite, their third child, Kerry Kurz, born
on October 11, 1953. Mrs. Polite was Barbara Kurz, Class 1945.
To Dr. and Mrs. Homer J. Gerken, a son, John Logan, on June 25,
1954. Mrs. Gerken was Anna Ruth Logan, Class 1946.
To Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Ireland, a daughter, Leslie Ann, on July 19,
1954. Mrs. Ireland was Mary Elizabeth Klevisher, Class 1946.
To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Wells, a son, Paul Wilson, on July 25, 1954.
Mrs. Wells was Elinor Wilson, Class 1946.
To Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Duvall, a son, Robert Brien, on July 29, 1952,
and a son, on August 3, 1954. They have two boys and one girl. Mrs.
Duvall was Dorothy Simpson, Class 1946.
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To Mr. and Mrs. John Millar, Jr., a daughter, Gale Scott, on September
23, 1954. Mrs. Millar was Ellen Baggett, Class 1947.
To Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stephan, a girl, Barbara Ann, on August 31,
1954. Mrs. Stephan was Dorothy Kidd, Class 1947.
To Mr. and Mrs. John W. McCarley, Jr., a son, John Wallace, III, on
July 22, 1954. Mrs. McCarley was Betty Jane Thompson, Class 1947.
To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. Pulaski, a son, Raymond Francis, on
August 1, 1954. Mrs. Pulaski was Betty Jane Roughton, Class 1947.
To Captain and Mrs. William Kaufman, a son, Thomas William, on
April 2, 1954. Mrs. Kaufman was Margaret O. Stein, Class 1947. Thomas
William was born in the Tokyo Army Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
To Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Weikert, a son, Jefferey Martin, on July 22,
1953. Mrs. Weikert was Eleanor Wright, Class 1947.
To Captain and Mrs. Nicholas Mallis, a son, Steven Michael, on Decem-
ber 15, 1953. (In France.) Mrs. Mallis was Jean Nilsson, Class 1947.
To Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Ferguson, Jr., a son, Stephen Lee, on July
21, 1953. Mrs. Ferguson was Hazel Phyllis Elliott, Class 1947.
To Captain and Mrs. Vannah E. Van Horn, Jr., a daughter, Debra Ann,
on August 13, 1954. Mrs. Van Horn was Frances Hicks, Class 1947.
To Dr. and Mrs. John E. Goeckler, a daughter, on October 28, 1953.
Another daughter, born on November 13, 1952, in Germany. Mrs. Goeckler
was Harriet Smith, Class 1947.
To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Donnelly, a daughter, Martha Ellen, on August
7, 1954. Mrs. Donnelly was Jean Warfield, Class 1948.
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kenneth Pettit, a daughter, on May 26, 1954.
Mrs. Pettit was Phyllis King, Class 1948.
To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chrissinger, a son, John Kenneth, on March
7, 1954. Mrs. Chrissinger was Ellen Mae Tschantre, Class 1948.
To Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Peck, a son, Lawrence John, on June 21, 1953.
(This is a second son for the Pecks.) Mrs. Peck was Eleanor Gorke, Class
1948.
To Mr. and Mrs. Martin Berler, a son, Mark Henry, on December 16,
1953. Mrs. Berler was Harriet Roslyn Pollack, Class 1948.
To Mr. and Mrs. Louis Klag, a daughter, Martha Cecilia, on May 2,
1951. Mrs. Klag was Joan Cowles, Class 1948. The Klags have a son,
Louis, Jr., six years old.
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To Dr. and Mrs. R. James Vassar, a son, William, in August, 1954. Mrs.
Vassar was Lois B. Henderson, Class 1949.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Bagley, III, a son, John, on April 24, 1954. Mrs.
Bagley was Marjorie Stewart, Class 1949.
To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Wroe, a son, on August 3, 1954. Mrs. Wroe
was Edith Ellen Viereck, Class 1950.
To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baily, a daughter, Barbara Lynn, on August 9,
1954. Mrs. Baily was Ruth Hutchinson, Class 1950.
To Mr. and Mrs. James A. Miller, a son, Jay A., on March 15, 1954.
The Millers have another son, Garry E., two years old. Mrs. Miller was
Jacqueline Loar, Class 1950.
To Mr. and Mrs. Tilghman L. German, a daughter, Leslie Ann, on April
16, 1954. Mrs. German was Doris Elizabeth Hicks, Class 1950.
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McDonough, Jr., a daughter, Virginia
Lucille, on December 22, 1953. Mrs. McDonough was Mary Alice Dowe,
Class 1950.
To Dr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Clemmens, a daughter, Jean Kathryn,
on April 12, 1954. Mrs. Clemmens was Jane Kathryn Blunt, Class 1950.
To Dr. and Mrs. Paul D. McCoy, a son, Donald Wilson, on October
6, 1954. Mrs. McCoy was Joanne Wilson, Class 1951.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Barrows, a daughter, Patricia Cary, born in
March, 1954. Mrs. Barrows was Mrs. Cary Bruton McCurdy, Class 1951.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Furst, a daughter, Deborah Lynn, on April 29,
1954. Mrs. Furst was Roberta Evelyn Wortman, Class 1951.
To Mr. and Mrs. Milton P. Miecznikoski, a daughter, Regina Patricia,
on February 3, 1954. Mrs. Miecznikoski graduated in 1951. (Estelle Jeanne
Hook.)
To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Schmidt, a son, John Calvin, on March 22,
1954. Mrs. Schmidt was Dorothy Eleanor Hucksoll, Class 1951.
To Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McHenry, a son, Robert C, Jr., on April
1, 1954. Mrs. McHenry was Pamela Watson, Class 1952.
To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kline, Jr., a daughter, Denise Carol, in April,
1953. Mrs. Kline was Janet Eyster, Class 1952.
To Dr. and Mrs. Jack T. Gibson, a son, Kurt Kyler, on July 23, 1954.
Mrs. Gibson was Joretta Ann Snowberger, Class 1952.
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To Mr. and Mrs. John B. Walker, a daughter, Margaret Ann, on Jan-
uary 12, 1954. Mrs. Walker was Catherine Claire Nonamaker, Class 1952.
To Dr. and Mrs. Ira Leon McGill, a daughter, Deanna Lynn, on July
9, 1954. Mrs. McGill was Nina Maureen Dellinger, Class 1952.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Erling Esiason, a daughter, Karen Ingrid, on June
13, 1954. Mrs. Esiason was Ellen Louise White, Class 1952.
To Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Davis, twin sons, James Erie and Noah
Edward, on July 25, 1954. Mrs. Davis was Barbara Ann Riecks, Class 1952.
To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gluys, a son, Gary William, on October 1,
1954. Mrs. Gluys was Patricia Wheeler, Class 1952.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis, a daughter, Nina Lynn, on September 3, 1954.
Mrs. Davis was Janet G. Douglas, Class 1953.
To Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Richmond, Jr., a son, Lewis Cass, on January 29,
1954. Mrs. Richmond, nee McBride, graduated in 1953.
To Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Diederichs, a daughter, Heidi Ann, on March
20, 1954. Mrs. Diederichs was Elsie Ardeth Loughlin, Class 1953.
To Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Eilers Fraleigh, a son, Peter Eilers, on August
21, 1954. Mrs. Fraleigh was Dorothea A. Fenwick, Class 1953.
To Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Andrews, a daughter, Kathy Lou, on Septem-
ber 22, 1954. Mrs. Anderson was Patricia Leffel, Class 1954.
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Brown, Margaret Symington
Class 1899, on April 14, 1954
Walton, Nancy Lane (Mrs. Morden Rigg)
Class 1904, in June, 1953
GUERRANT, E. JANIE
Class 1904, in August, 1953
Cowling, Margaret Brand
Class 1905, in 1953
Haydon, Jane T.
Class 1907, on April 28, 1953
Chapline, Eva Sidney
Class 1909, on August 20, 1954
Wise, Helen Van Devanter
Class 1902, on November 16, 1954
Miss Wise was Superintendent of Nurses at the University Hospital,
and also held the same position at the Peninsula General Hospital in
Salisbury, for 19 years. Miss Wise was a native of Leesburg, Va.
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REGULATION UNIFORM FOR GRADUATE NURSES OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Uniform
Plain white material.
Waist: Perfectly plain; box pleat 2 inches wide.
Pocket: 3!/2 x3J/2 inches.
Belt: Of uniform material, 2 inches wide, to fasten with button instead
of buckle.
Sleeves: Long or elbow length.
Long Sleeve Cuffs: 2l/2 inches wide, round corners, fasten with buttons.
Short sleeve cuffs fasten with white cuff links.
Skirt: Perfectly plain, 5 or 6 gores; plain back with seam down center or
with a very few gathers — either may be worn.
Length: Optional.
Hem: 3 inches. Plackets in front with 3 buttons; placket wider at bottom
than top.
Buttons: The uniform button is the pearl button with fisheye; all buttons
same size except small sleeve placket buttons.
Collars: Bishop or Tress — Red Cross style to meet — plain bar pin or
Alumnae pin to be worn at collar.
4 Buttons on waist of uniform. 1 Button on belt.
Apron
Gores: Three.
Hem: Four inches.
Belt: Two inches.
Length: Even with uniform skirt.
Bib: Just even with shoulder — fasten with two buttons.
Cuffs: Separate cuffs to be worn with apron only. Cuflfs 2>Vz inches wide,
two rows hemstitching; V^-hrch space between hemstitching.
Graduates of the University of Maryland School of Nursing will always
appear in uniform made by these directions.
The uniform, or any part of the uniform, is not to be worn except when
the nurse is on duty. This applies particularly to streets and public places.
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CAPS AND CAP SERVICE
Miss Goldie E. Frazee
Tudor Arms Apts., G-l
501 W. University Parkway
BElmont 5-0400 Baltimore 10, Md.
Delivery service to Nurses' Home first Monday of each month, between
2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Charges:
New Point d'Esprit Caps (including laundering) $5.00
New Crowns .50
Laundering Caps 1.00
Caps mailed in the city, twenty-five cents extra.
Caps mailed out of city, fifty cents extra.
All caps, laundered or new, must be paid for in advance.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 71
REGULATIONS FOR THE NURSES DIRECTORY OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Under the auspices of the Nurses Alumnae Association
of The University of Maryland
The Directory is open for calls by telephone any hour, Day and Night
except Fridays from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m.-l p.m. Tele-
phone BElmont 5-8491.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DIRECTORY OF THE
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
(Revised 1954)
Management
This directory shall be managed by a Directory Committee composed of
a Chairman and four members of the Alumnae Association, to be elected
every year at the Annual Meeting. This Committee must give a monthly
report to the Alumnae Association.
Registrar
The Registrar shall be appointed by the Alumnae Association.
Requirements for Membership on the Directory
Members of the Directory must be registered nurses of Maryland and
members of the Nurses Alumnae Association of the University of Maryland.
Through the courtesy of the Alumnae Association, a graduate of the
University may join the Registry under these conditions.
1. Applications must be filed with the State Board of Examiners for the
next examination.
2. Failure of two successive State Board Examinations automatically drops
applicant from Registry unless she has proof that she was ill at the time of
examination.
3. In order to go on the Registry, graduate must apply in person to
the Registrar with her certificate of nursing from the State Board Examiner
of Nurses. If she has failed first State Board Examination, she must apply
for next examination, and receive her second certificate of nursing.
Dues
All members of the Directory shall pay the annual dues of $22.50 except
those nurses registering after July 1, who shall pay $11.25. If the whole
fee is paid in January, and only Y2 year is worked, there will be no refunds.
Exceptional cases are to be referred to the Directory Committee.
Fiscal year begins January 1. Members are to be taken off Directory for
non-payment of dues at end of 90 days and to be notified of this by Chair-
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man of Committee. Members are reinstated upon payment of dues. In
case of sickness or other circumstances, time of payment may be extended
at the discretion of Directory Committee.
Rules
1. Graduates are permitted to register for or against any kind of case or
hospital or duty desired.
2. Graduates of less than 2 years are allowed to register against contagious,
mental or obstetrical cases only.
3. Members "when on the list" and given call for cases not registered
against are expected to respond or go to the bottom of the list.
4. Nurses when on call are expected to keep in close touch with the
Registrar.
5. If a member wishes to resign from the Directory, she should do so in
writing to the treasurer. She may then be reinstated at any time. Any
nurse who does not send in written resignation can be reinstated only on
payment of all back dues.
6. In case of contagion, the nurse shall be governed by rules of the Health
Department.
7. Any complaints either from Directory members or concerning them
may be made to Chairman of Committee or to Alumnae Association at
regular meeting.
8. Nurses fees are approved by the Alumnae Association.
$14.00 per day for 8 hour duty.
$21.00 per day for 12 hour duty.
$30.00 per day for 20 hour duty.
$21.00 per day for 8 hour duty (2 pvt. pts.)
$31.50 per day for 12 hour duty (2 pvt. pts.)
At the University Hospital a nurse may be called, for her first day on a
case, to report for duty not more than four hours preceding a regular
period and asked to remain through the regular period for which she
receives $1.75 per hour up to the time of regular period and $14.00 for
regular period.
If the request for a nurse should be cancelled after her arrival at her place
of duty, she is expected to receive salary for one day's work.
When nursing in hospitals, a nurse's fee is regulated by rules of the
hospital in which she is working.
9. Members may be denied use of the Directory at any time for not
observing rules of same.
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TREASURER'S REPORT NURSES' ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL REPORT 1954
General Fund — Western National Bank
Balance on hand December 31st, 1953 $1,783.77
Receipts:
Dues $1,991.50
Tax allowable on Miss Lackland's gift .... .60
Bulletin 906.00
Directory 1,495.02
Check returned 25.00
Error in check .02
1953 Scholarship Benefit additional 10.00
Plate sale 32.50
Refund on flowers 1.03
From Louisa Parson's Fund 150.00
Overpaid dues 5.00
Banquet 1,095.00
For Student's Scholarship Fund 10.00
1954 Benefit for Scholarship Fund 686.66
Donation Scholarship Fund 1.02
From Sick Benefit Fund for Benefits paid
1954 92.00
$6,501.35 $8,285.12
Disbursements:
Directory $1,299.71
Treasurer's expenses 55.62
Flowers 44.16
Postage 157.19
Corporation seal 9.18
Refreshments for meetings 60.12
Repairing typewriters 45.30
Transferred to Scholarship Fund 1953
Benefit 22.00
Addressing 1953 envelopes and cards .... 8.00
Bulletin 1,699.54
Addressograph 26.36
Safe deposit box rental 3.60
Dues refunded 5.00
Printing 89.89
Gifts to ill nurses at Easter 50.00
Gift to retiring Registrar 25.00
Delegate to Convention 50.00
CARE Book Program for Nurses 15.00
Checks returned insufficient funds 37.50
Banquet expenses 1,388.29
Scholarship award 50.00
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Transferred to Scholarship Fund 300.00
Transferred to Nurses' School Scholarship
Fund 10.00
Library School Nursing as requested in
Miss Lackland's Will 90.30
Addressing cards for meetings 24.00
Obituary notice 5.25
Sick benefits paid 1954 92.00
Advertising Student Nurses' Year Book . . 35.00
Edwards China Co 143.10
Freight on ash trays 2.41
President's expenses 2.25
Expenses for Scholarship Benefit 386.72
Gifts to ill nurses at Christmas 110.00
Transferred to Scholarship Fund from
Benefit 330.68
Transferred to Druid Hill Federal Build-
ing and Loan from General Fund for
interest 1,000.00
$7,673.17
Balance on hand December 31st, 1954 $ 11.95
Sick Benefit Fund — Eutaw Savings Bank
Balance on hand December 31st, 1953 $2,538.39
Receipts:
Dues $ 269.50
Interest 66.67
$ 336.17 $2,874.56
Disbursements:
Sick Benefits paid 92.00
Balance on hand December 31st, 1954 $2,782.56
Endowment and Loan Fund — Eutaw Savings Bank
Balance on hand December 31st, 1953 $1,464.14
Receipts:
Interest 36.75
Balance in Eutaw Savings Bank $1,500.89
Druid Hill Building and Loan
U. S. Savings Bond redeemed $ 1,000.00
Dividend 29.35
$1,029.35
Total in Fund $2,530.24
Scholarship Fund:
Balance on hand in The Eutaw Savings Bank, December 31st,
1953 $6,011.82
Receipts:
From 1953 Benefit $ 22.00
Interest 132.44
$6,166.26
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Druid Hill Building and Loan:
Transferred from General Fund $ 300.00
1954 Benefit Receipts 330.68
Dividend 5.25
$ 635.93
Total in Fund $ 6,802.19
Total in all Funds $13,726.94
U. S. Government Bonds:
Sick Benefit Fund due 1955 $ 2,000.00
Sick Benefit Fund due 1956 2,000.00
Sick Benefit Fund due 1959 1,000.00
Scholarship Fund due 1956 1,000.00
Total Bonds 6,500.00
Total Funds 13,726.94
$20,226.94
Respectfully submitted,
Blanche M. Horine
DIRECTORY REPORT 1954
Receipts:
Dues $1,495.02
Disbursements:
Telephone $ 249.79
Registrar's Salary 763.20
Taxes 170.20
Printing rules 26.52
Vacation relief 40.00
Treasurer's expenses 50.00
1,299.71
Profit $ 185.31
GIFTS, MEMORIALS AND LEGACIES TO
The Sick Benefit Fund
The Scholarship Fund
The Endowment and Loan Fund
Please send gifts in care of Blanche Martin Horine, Treasurer, Box 2,
University Hospital, who will see that they are transmitted to the proper
fund and acknowledged through the Secretary.
FORM OF BEQUEST
I give and bequeath to the
the sum of dollars.
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HONORARY MEMBERS
Honorary Member
Miss Lucy Ann Marshall 1922
Life Member
*Miss Mary E. Rolph, Class 1895; Died August 23, 1948
Honorary Member
*Miss Nannie J. Lackland, Class 1898; Died September 3, 1953
Honorary Member
*Miss Blenda Rossell, Class 1898; Died August 17, 1948
Honorary Member
Mrs. John L. Whitehurst
Life Member (Paid)
Mrs. Lena McDaniel, Class 1918 1941
Mrs. Charles Rausenbach, Class 1918 1941
Life Member
Miss Helen Van Devanter Wise, Class 1902
Life Member
Miss Mary Ellen Sullivan, Class 1911
Honorary Member
Miss Elizabeth Aitkenhead
1001 St. Paul Street, Apt. 2B, Baltimore 2, Md.
Honorary Member
Dean Florence Gipe
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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GRADUATES OF 1954
Anderson, Nancy Patricia
9514 Ocala Street
Silver Spring, Maryland
Anderson, Patricia Lee Leflfel
R.F.D. 2
White Hall, Maryland
Austin, Carol Boehm
1913 E. 30th Street
Baltimore 18, Maryland
Bowling, Doris Marie
2615 E. Fayette Street
Baltimore 24, Maryland
Crawford, Georgia Etta
309 Burke Avenue
Towson 4, Maryland
Crist, Patricia Mae
1720 Arbutus Avenue
Halethorpe 27, Maryland
Dorfler, Betty Ann
504 Evesham Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
Elbourne, Ella Startte
Gratitude Lane
Rock Hall, Maryland
Elgin, Barbara Ann Yates
925 St. Paul Street
Baltimore 2, Maryland
Franklin, Virginia Lee
Box 95, R.D. 1
Severna Park, Maryland
Hauver, Bertha Jean
Thurmont, Maryland
Herring, Barbara Ann Carter
809 Woodington Road
Baltimore 29, Maryland
Hewell, Muriel Gwendolyn
437 Lorraine Avenue
Baltimore 18, Maryland
Hibberd, Charlene Raye
6114 62nd Place
Riverdale, Maryland
Hines, Marie Rose
Lumberport, West Virginia
Johns, Shirley Marie
7301 23rd Avenue
Hyattsville, Maryland
Johnston, Pamela Stoddard Fleming
7301 Dun wall Court
Baltimore 22, Maryland
Jones, Shirley Mae
Rocky Ridge, Maryland
Kernan, Stella
238 Putman Lane
Weirton, West Virginia
Lees, Naomi Jacquelin Snyder
3405 Ravenwood Avenue
Baltimore 13, Maryland
LeFever, Joyce Christine
716 Summit Avenue
Hagerstown, Maryland
Lewis, Elaine Loree
55 Alder Street
Oakland, Maryland
MacKenzie, Mildred Merlene
7807 Chestnut Avenue
Baltimore 14, Maryland
Teagarden, Gloria Alice
McLaren, Mrs. John J.
368 Longwood Avenue
Apartment 31
Boston, Massachusetts
McLay, Hazel Dorothy
96 N. Main Street
Port Deposit, Maryland
Marshall, Mary Helen
3204 Montebello Terrace
Baltimore, Maryland
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Parks, Faye Anita Elsie
528 George Street
Hagerstown, Maryland
Fitzgerald, Emily Webster
Pusey, Mrs. Clarence Edward, Jr.
2830 Overland Avenue
Baltimore 14, Maryland
Reid, Marlene Barnes
214 Talbot Street
Easton, Maryland
Reinhart, Catherine Louise
9918 Sutherland Road
Silver Spring, Maryland
Richardson, Margaret Ann
1208 Fourth Road
Baltimore 20, Maryland
Ricks, Nancy Jane
3736 Elm Avenue
Baltimore 11, Maryland
Ritter, Joan Carolyn
9515 Gwyndale Drive
Silver Spring, Maryland
Ritzman, Joan Verna
6804 Highview Avenue
Baltimore 6, Maryland
Robertson, Gwendolyn Elaine
6 Chatham Avenue
Ellicott City, Maryland
Robinson, Katherine Imogene
5228 8th Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C.
Shubkagel, Betty Lou
427 Cleveland Road
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Strack, Ruby Mae Sterling
1108 Orren Street, N.E.
Washington 2, D. C.
Swint, Katherine Virginia
3921 Kimble Road
Baltimore 16, Maryland
Thompson, Mary Lee
701 Newington Avenue
Baltimore 17, Maryland
Weller, Jean Estelle
606 Second
Pocomoke, Maryland
Willson, Alta Fay
c/o Lt. Col. Virgil A. Willson
227 Sand Street (WHP)
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Wilson, Mildred Margaret
1110 Haverhill Road
Baltimore 29, Maryland
Widman, Elaine G.
206 Morre Street
Princeton, New Jersey
Wijangco, Demetria
620 West Lombard Street
Baltimore 1, Maryland
Calulut, San Fernando, Pampanga
Philippine Islands
Wolfe, Patricia Ann
1201 N. Powhatan Street
Arlington, Virginia
Yingling, Catherine Belle
Union Bridge, Maryland
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THE JOHN D. LUCAS PRINTING COMPANY
"Serving Baltimore Over 100 Years
26th and SISSON STS. BALTIMORE 11, MD.
BEImont 5-8600
A. H.
FETTING
CO.
MANUFACTURING and RETAILING
JEWELERS
314
N
CHARLES ST.-
-1
BALTIMORE,
MD.
Manufacturers of the Official Alumnae Pin
PLaza 2-1832
SNYDER NURSING HOME
LINCOLNWAY, WEST
R. D. 3, GETTYSBURG, PA.
RUTH ANNA SNYDER, R.N. Phone 285-Y
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HAHN &
HAHN
FLORISTS
324 WEST SARATOGA STREET
BALTIMORE
1, MD.
MUlberry 5-1949
SAYLOR'S AMOCO SERVICE STATION
JUST SEE NEIL
REDWOOD and GREENE STREETS— 1
SAratoga 7-8960
THOMAS J. KENNY, Inc.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
HOLLINS and GILMOR STREETS
Gllmor 5-5473 Baltimore 23, Maryland
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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MURRAY - BAUMGARTNER
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPANY, INC.
Equipment and Supplies for:
Doctors
Hospitals
Laboratories
Industrial Clinics
5 W. CHASE STREET
BALTIMORE 1, MD.
SAratoga 7-7333
UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT
SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH and DINNER
REDWOOD and GREENE STREETS— 1
SAM and BOB LEWIS, Props.
MUlberry 5-9163
MAURICE-JOSEPH
BEAUTY SALON
114 W. MULBERRY STREET— 1
MUlberry 5-5458
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UNIVERSITY PHARMACY
(FORMERLY SOLOMON'S)
524 W. BALTIMORE STREET
BALTIMORE 1, MD. MUlberry 5-9125
NURSES UNIFORM COMPANY
Nurses' Uniforms Made to Individual Measure
PERFECT FIT
SCHOOL UNIFORMS
(Official Maker of U. of Md. Graduafe Nurse Uniforms)
1822 E. MONUMENT ST.— 5 EAstern 7-4744
KATHERINE MARTIN
BALTIMORE HARDWARE
GIFTS and GREETING CARDS
BANDAGE SCISSORS
BALTIMORE and GREENE STREETS— 1
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Compliments
of
HERBERT T.
NEALE
ETHICON INCORPORATED
Pals Meet at Al's
AL'S RESTAURANT
BREAKFAST — LUNCHEON — DINNER
SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS
Spaghetti and Meatballs a Specialty
REDWOOD and GREENE STS.— 1 Phone SA 7-9559